Supporters to Gather Tuesday Morning to Call for Re-Funded Leopold Center
At 10 a.m. this morning at the Iowa Department of Administrative Services' Wallace State Office Building in downtown Des Moines, advocates of Iowa State...
The Most Extreme Bills Proposed So Far in the 2018 Iowa Legislative Session
As the Iowa Legislature enters its fourth full week in the second consecutive year of total Republican control, the party seeks to continue its...
Weekly News Roundup: Gov Signs Water Quality Bill, Anti-Islam GOPer Forms Pro-Trump PAC
The Informer’s weekly news roundup, presented in partnership with KHOI community radio.
Kim Reynolds Signs Water Quality Bill, Critics Call It Toothless
Achieving a goal she...
UI Donor Steve Wynn Resigns As GOP Finance Chair Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations [Updated]
Update, 1/31: The University of Iowa has announced it will remove Wynn's name from its vision institute. "The University of Iowa is committed to...
Kim Reynolds Calls Chelgren Proposal to Direct Money Away from Public Schools “Not Unreasonable”
State Sen. Mark “Chickenman” Chelgren, R-Ottumwa, has a history of taking aim at public school funding, and on Wednesday he was at it again,...
Steve King Planned to Visit with Czech Party Whose Secretary Allegedly Called for Gassing...
Steve King was one of five congressmen who planned to meet today in Prague with Tomio Okamura, the leader of a far-right, anti-immigrant political...
Baltimore Loses House Judiciary Chairmanship After Drunk-Driving Arrest
State Rep. Chip Baltimore, R-Boone, has been stripped of his chairmanship of the Iowa House Judiciary Committee following his arrest early Friday morning in...
Weekly News Roundup: Blame Goes Around for Government Shutdown, Baltimore Hit with OWI, Gun...
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Iowa Dems, GOP Trade Blame for Federal Government Shutdown
Iowa Republicans and Democrats blamed...
FBI’s NRA-Russia Probe Has an Iowa Connection, Too
The FBI is investigating whether the National Rifle Association received illegal funds from a Russian oligarch associated with the Kremlin to help Donald Trump's...
Steve King Declares Racial Oppression a Thing of the Past
Steve King was at it again on Twitter last weekend, sharing a link to a column in the Wall Street Journal that criticized the...
