Month: September 2022

The State of Iowa has a more than $1.9 billion budget surplus. Governor Reynolds has announced the state has $830 million in reserve funds and holds more than a billion in its Taxpayer Relief Fund. […]

Iowa Lottery CEO Matt Strawn predicted it would be hard to match the last two fiscal years — which were the most profitable in the organization’s history — but he says the first two months […]

A 38-year-old Iowans who pleaded guilty to assaulting a policeman during the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Kyle Young of Redfield assaulted DC […]

Two companies were sentenced to probation for one year and ordered to pay millons in restitution in a federal fraud case. A judge ordered Energae of Clear Lake and I-Lenders to each pay more than […]

The superintendent of the second-largest public school district in Iowa is undergoing treatment for cancer and has submitted her resignation. Noreen Bush, the superintendent of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, was diagnosed with cancer […]

For more than 20 years, foreign nationals and non-American-owned companies have been able to borrow money from the federal government to buy farmland here in the U.S., and Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says that needs […]

A judge has struck down a state law that enhanced the penalty for trespassing at an ag-related business if the person took pictures or recorded video that was shared. Animal welfare groups had sued the […]