Another bid to curb undercover surveillance of Iowa ag operations
Mar 24, 2021
BY O. KAY HENDERSON RADIO IOWA - The Iowa House has voted to establish new penalties for those found guilty of trespassing to set up electronic surveillance equipment on someone else’s property to secretly capture images…
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Senate Republicans send two gun-related bills to Iowa governor
Mar 23, 2021
BY O. KAY HENDERSON Republicans in the Iowa Senate have given final approval to a bill that would no longer require Iowans to get state permits for buying and for carrying handguns in public. Senator Jason…
Iowa Representatives vote along party lines on immigration bills
Mar 22, 2021
BY DAR DANIELSON The three Republicans who serve in the U.S. House have voted against bills that would create a path to citizenship for so-called Dreamers who were illegally brought into the U.S. as children and…
Iowa House passes bill relaxing gun permit laws
Mar 19, 2021
Republicans in the Iowa Legislature are again working to rewrite the state’s gun laws with a bill that would allow people to buy firearms and carry a concealed handgun without first obtaining a state permit.…
Covid vaccines for all Iowans will be available in April
Mar 18, 2021
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Wednesday (3/17) that all Iowa residents will be eligible for coronavirus vaccinations on April 5 as long as supply projections are met. Reynolds said the federal government is promising a…
Bahena Rivera to have trial management conference
Mar 17, 2021
The man accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts will have a trial management conference Wednesday (3/17). Cristian Behana Rivera is accused of killing Tibbetts in July 2018 while she was jogging in her home town of…
Tossing Iowa ordinances that ban rejection of Section 8 housing vouchers
Mar 16, 2021
BY O. KAY HENDERSON All but two Republicans in the Iowa House have voted to ban city ordinances that prevent landlords from rejecting potential tenants who use government housing vouchers to pay rent. The Republican-led Senate…
Coronavirus update
Mar 15, 2021
Two people in Iowa died from coronavirus over the weekend. The deaths reported Saturday (3/13) and Sunday (3/14) bring the state’s death total for the pandemic to 5633. Neither death was from the No Coast…
House approves adding benefits for police & firefighters
Mar 12, 2021
The Iowa House has voted to insure police and firefighters in Oskaloosa, Ottumwa and 47 other Iowa cities who are part of a statewide pension and disability system are covered for work-related injuries that developed…
Reporter aquitted of charges in arrest at protest
Mar 11, 2021
BY DAR DANIELSON RADIO IOWA - A jury has acquitted Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri of charges of failure to disperse and interference with official acts at a protest at a Des Moines Mall on…