An Iowa District Court has reversed a $10 million verdict from 2007 against West Des Moines businessman Gary Kirke and his casino company, Wild Rose Entertainment LLC, saying they did not breach a contract with a consulting company.
One of the six attorneys representing Kirke in the case was [...]
Former Des Moines school board member Jonathan Narcisse criticized Gov. Chet Culver and the Republicans hoping to unseat him in 2010, but remained coy about whether he will challenge the governor in a Democratic primary.
Jonathan Narcisse
Narcisse was speaking to Dave Price, reporter for Des Moines [...]
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is calling foul on Democrat Roxanne Conlin, saying she is trying to have it both ways on the issue of taking donations from lobbyists and political action committees.
Conlin has repeatedly said she will not accept donations from lobbyists or PACs, and Tuesday called on the [...]
One of three Democrats vying to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is calling on the veteran lawmaker to decline all contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees (PACs).
Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin said in an e-mail to Grassley that the senior senator has accepted millions from “the [...]
Iowa Christian Alliance President and Republican National Committee member Steve Scheffler is among 10 co-sponsors of a resolution being circulated that aims to impose a conservative litmus test on potential GOP candidates.
The resolution, dubbed a “purity test” by the media, became public Monday. It lists 10 positions Republican candidates should [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad’s endorsement of Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., in 2000 helped him win his seat and eventually allowed him to join fellow Democrats in moving their health care reform bill forward, GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats said Monday.
“Ben Nelson gave Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid [...]
Liberal blog Bleeding Heartland reports that former Butler County Democratic Party Chairman Bill Maske has announced he will challenge Fourth Distict U.S. Rep. Tom Latham, R-Ames, in 2010.
Maske, who has launched a Web site, is a veteran school administrator with no previous electoral experience.
The Fourth District Democratic Central [...]
Iowa conservatives give former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee the highest favorability rating among potential 2012 presidential candidates, according to the most recent Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Des Moines [...]
Former Iowa State University wrestling coach Jim Gibbons and state Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, both announced intentions Thursday to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell in 2010.
Gibbons, who coached ISU to an NCAA championship in 1987, said he will leave his job at Wells Fargo Advisers to [...]
Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan’s attacks against U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are simply “insulting Iowans who disagree with the [Obama] administration’s political decision to bring terrorists to the United States,” an aide to the senator told the Iowa Independent Thursday.
Jill Kozeny, communications director for Grassley, was responding to an [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s comparison of civilian trials for terrorists to the murder trial of O.J. Simpson is “false and disrespectful,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Thursday.
While questioning Attorney General Eric Holder about the idea of prosecuting five men accused as co-conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks [...]
Now that Democratic leaders in the Senate have unveiled their health care reform plan, Democrats have “rounded third [base] and we’re heading to home,” U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Cumming, said Wednesday night.
During an interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Harkin said no one in the Democratic caucus wants to [...]
A little more than half of Americans believe health care reform would do more harm than good, according to a University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released Wednesday.
The national phone survey of 772 adults, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percent, found that 52 percent believe [...]
The union representing state troopers and game wardens has reached an agreement with the state aimed at saving 43 jobs, Gov. Chet Culver announced Tuesday.
The State Police Officers Council (SPOC) has agreed that its 640 members will take five furlough days during the remaining 7 months of [...]
A Polk County Judge has ruled the Iowa Department of Economic Development should pay a Canadian filmmaker $6.5 million in tax credits.
The ruling could have bigger ramifications down the road, as several filmmakers who have been denied tax credits weigh legal action against the state.
As GOP gubernatorial hopefuls try to draw distinctions from their Republican rivals, the Iowa Democratic Party continues to co-opt their critiques with the hope of weakening potential challengers to incumbent Gov. Chet Culver.
The latest attack was delivered in Dubuque by state Rep. Chris Rants against former Gov. Terry Branstad. Rants [...]
A spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, responded Monday to attacks from Iowa Republicans who say transferring Guantanamo detainees to U.S. soil is a “clear threat to national security.”
President Barack Obama has said he wants Guantanamo Bay facility by January. A nearly-empty Illinois prison near the Mississippi River on [...]
Allowing military service for those with “different beliefs and different religious structure” is a “recipe for disaster,” a West Des Moines pastor told controversial Christian radio host Steve Deace Friday.
Deace was discussing the shootings at the Ft. Hood military base in Texas with Bob Deever, pastor at [...]
Calling it a “clear threat to national security,” Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Matt Strawn called on U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, to oppose a plan to house transferred Guantanamo detainees in Illinois.
A nearly-empty Illinois prison near the Mississippi River on the border with Braley’s Iowa district is among U.S. [...]
The latest Iowa Poll by The Des Moines Register finds Gov. Chet Culver losing to both former Gov. Terry Branstad and Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats in hypothetical head-to-head campaigns.
Culver’s job approval rating, at 40 percent, has hit the lowest point since taking office and has dropped 20-percentage-points since [...]
Even if Democrats manage to pass health reform legislation, if it contains an individual mandate it could prove unconstitutional, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Thursday.
During an interview with KAYL radio in Storm Lake and the Marshalltown Times Republican, Grassley said that even though he’s never studied law and is [...]
An automated call featuring one of Terry Branstad’s former lieutenant governors asking Republicans to support same-sex marriage has drawn the ire of social conservatives.
The calls, which feature the voice of Republican Joy Corning and were paid for by gay rights group One Iowa, say the Iowa Supreme Court [...]
State Sen. Roger Stewart, D-Preston announced Thursday he will not seek re-election in Senate District 13.
Stewart has represented the northeastern district since 2003. In 2006, he easily won re-election with 65 percent of the vote.
He has served as chair of the Senate Economic Growth Committee and serves [...]
The Republican Party should steer clear of infighting and focus on the fiscal issues that unite them, former New York Gov. George Pataki told the Associated Press on the eve of a speech in Iowa.
Pataki was the keynote speaker at the Scott County Republican Party’s Ronald Reagan Dinner [...]
Voters will get a replay of the wild and contentious race for state House District 84, as Republican Ross Paustian will once again challenge Democratic Rep. Elesha Gayman, according to Quad-City Times reporter Ed Tibbetts.
On Election Night, Paustian looked victorious, with early returns showing him with a narrow [...]
If America wakes up and learns the lesson of the Ft. Hood shooting, that Islam is a violent ideology and is incompatible with military service, then the shooter has done the country a favor, Christian conservative radio host Steve Deace said.
WHO-AM [...]
No one who has “sworn allegiance to Islamic ideology” should be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Christian conservative radio host Steve Deace said during his show on Monday.
In the aftermath of Major Nidal Hasan’s killing spree at Fort Hood in Texas, questions of whether [...]
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, was greeted on the floor of the U.S. House with catcalls of “trial lawyer” shortly before passage of health care reform legislation Saturday night.
Braley, a Waterloo attorney, was chosen to respond to a Republican effort to block a vote on the bill. The [...]
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will visit the Hawkeye State next month to promote her new book, “Going Rogue,” according to a press release from the bookstore chain Barnes and Noble.
Sarah Palin at a rally in Sioux City last [...]
Iowa’s largest union has reached a tentative agreement with the state, avoiding 479 layoffs that could have resulted from Gov. Chet Culver’s 10 percent budget cut ordered last month, which many feared would impact public safety.
The 479 positions include front line correctional officers, parole probation officers and other support positions.
Culver [...]
Iowa should privatize its prison system in order to alleviate budget problems, a conservative watchdog group said Monday.
Ed Failor Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief, said the privatization of Iowa’s prisons would result in many positive benefits, from making communities safer to minimizing inefficiencies. But the biggest benefit [...]
Two Republican legislators and the state’s largest labor union are calling on the University of Iowa to cancel a planned trip to the Disney Institute in Orlando, Fla., saying the price tag is too high at a time when the state is facing huge budget deficits.
In a statement last [...]
The health care reform bill passed Saturday night by the U.S. House requires the government to encourage suicide, according to U.S. Rep. Steve King.
While walking away from the U.S. Capitol, King, a Republican from Kiron, said page 644 of the health care bill says the government [...]
Steve King
U.S. Rep. Steve King is hoping to derail health care reform legislation scheduled to be debated in the U.S. House by trying to harness the Tea Party protests that took place throughout the summer and once again bringing them to the nation’s capital on Saturday.
King [...]
Paul McKinley
Senate Majority Leader Paul McKinley, R-Chariton, followed through on his promise Friday and dropped out of the 2010 campaign for governor.
McKinley said last month that when former Gov. Terry Branstad made his candidacy official, he would withdraw. [...]
The Associated Press broke the news Friday morning that an aide close to Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin confirms she will formally announce she will seek the Democratic nomination for Senate next week.
The aide also confirms she will file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission next week.
Later [...]
Christopher Reed formally announced his candidacy to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack of the 2nd Congressional District on Thursday, and in doing so vowed to run a less contentious campaign than he did in 2008 against Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin.
In that campaign, which Reed [...]
The website designed to allow citizens to track how and where funds are being allocated as part of the $830 million I-JOBS infrastructure plan now includes an interactive tool to improve transparency, Gov. Chet Culver announced Thursday.
In June, Culver’s deputy chief of staff, Phil Roeder, told The [...]
The 2010 GOP gubernatorial primary is shaping up to be a spirited affair, with candidates already actively campaigning and taking shots at their fellow Republicans more than seven months before Election Day.
But Civic Skinny, the anonymous gossip columnist for Des Moines’ Cityview, says the contest is as much about [...]
For the second time in a week, the Iowa Democratic Party is using audio from a meeting between former Gov. Terry Branstad and leaders of the social conservative movement to attack the veteran Republican.
The four-term governor held a pair of meetings with a group of pastors, social [...]
The Iowa Pharmacy Board held its final hearing on the idea of legalizing medical marijuana on Wednesday, and the board’s vice chair expects a decision before the legislature reconvenes in January.
Susan Frey, vice chair of the board, told Radio Iowa’s O.Kay Henderson that the decision won’t be [...]
In light of historic budget cuts recently implemented by Gov. Chet Culver due to a downturn in revenue projections, the state should increase its investment in postsecondary education for low-income adults. The investment would improve economic prospects for Iowa families, and in the process boost the state budget, according [...]
Tuesday’s election results should be greeted with happiness for Republicans but they should not be seen as a public repudiation of President Obama, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday morning.
“I don’t think it’s a referendum on Obama,” the Republican lawmaker said in a conference call [...]
In a pair of votes that hit close to home for Iowa, voters in Maine repealed the state’s law allowing same-sex couples to get married while also voting to expand the state’s medical marijuana law.
Both issues are big topics in the Hawkeye State. The Iowa Supreme Court legalized [...]
Gov. Chet Culver’s re-election campaign announced Tuesday it was launching its second television advertisement.
The ad will air in the Des Moines and Cedar Rapids markets as well as some cable around the state. It is titled “Stronger Than Ever” and focuses on the governor’s response to last year’s flooding [...]
Terry Branstad
Although former Gov. Terry Branstad thought meeting with leaders of Iowa’s social conservative movement could help his campaign by alleviating their concerns with his candidacy, the aftermath has not gone according to plan.And for a candidate whose last political campaign took place long [...]
With former Gov. Terry Branstad’s recent return to politics after a decade out of office, Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson decided to take a trip down memory lane. The veteran reporter went into her archives and found the audio from Branstad’s last campaign kickoff event back in [...]
A version of health care reform legislation currently in the Senate makes nearly 1,000 references to the Health and Human Services secretary, a clear indicator that the bill is actually a government takeover of health care, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday.
The Republican lawmaker is pointing to an 839-page [...]
A group of filmmakers has sued the Iowa Department of Economic Development alleging the state breached its contract regarding issuing tax credits to finance their work.
The suit, filed Oct. 28 and scheduled to go before Polk County District Court Monday, was filed by a group of filmmaking companies [...]
While alcohol is still Iowa’s No. 1 intoxicant, the two most abused illicit drugs in the Hawkeye State are marijuana and methamphetamine, according to a report released Monday by the Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy.
“Based on primary substance abuse treatment admission data from the Iowa Department of [...]
U.S. Rep. Steve King has no plans to run for president, but since he never had intentions to run for Congress, he refuses to rule out the possibility of a 2012 campaign.
Steve King
The Kiron Republican told Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV that he wants to [...]
Rod Roberts
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rod Roberts of Carroll supports the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court justices that are up for retention votes in 2010 due to their verdict legalizing same-sex marriage earlier this year.
Roberts said he will personally vote “no” on all three [...]
Tim Albrecht, a veteran Republican strategist and the man behind the conservative news aggregator TheBeanWalker.com, will join the 2010 campaign of former Gov. Terry Branstad as communication director.
In addition to his website, Albrecht has acted as communication director of the conservative group American Future Fund for [...]
In order for Iowa to become the “economic engine of the Midwest,” the Hawkeye State should phase out its income tax, according to GOP gubernatorial hopeful Christian Fong.
It’s a theme he’s returned to repeatedly over the last few weeks, first in a series of town halls, then in [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley has reiterated his call for Congress to abandon climate change legislation in order to wait for an international treaty.
File photo: Sen Charles Grassley. (Lauren Victoria Burke/wdcpix.com)
Grassley, and many farm-state lawmakers, fear legislation passed in the House earlier this [...]
With Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty coming to Des Moines next weekend, coupled with the strange dust up over Sarah Palin’s speaking fee for a speech she never intended to give, 2012 prognosticators have had plenty to keep them busy.
Now, throw former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee into the mix.
Former Gov. Terry Branstad met privately with several leaders of Iowa’s social conservative movement to answer their questions and allay any fears the may have of his likely run for governor next year.
Former Gov. Terry Branstad
However, from the reaction of two people who attended [...]
The latest health care reform proposal, which includes a public insurance plan that state’s could “opt out” of, has raised the possibility that the debate currently raging in Washington could be headed to state capitols around the country.
As the news site Politico points out, the details of how, exactly, [...]
Gov. Chet Culver has scheduled a press conference at 3 p.m. Wednesday to announce the plans for cutting $565 million from the state’s budget.
Culver announced earlier this month that the state would respond to dour revenue projects with a 10 percent across-the-board cut to the budget. No departments would [...]
The announcement Monday that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to go forward with health-care reform legislation that includes a public option is bad news for everyday Americans, Sen. Chuck Grassley said Tuesday.
Grassley called the public option “another new entitlement on top of Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, [...]
It was a mistake for his presidential campaign to skip Iowa, and it likely cost him his party’s nomination, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a recent interview with New York Magazine.
In an article that focuses on whether he should make a run for governor of New [...]
Iowa’s former first lady Christie Vilsack will not run for Senate as a Democrat in 2010.
Rumors have circulated around Vilsack as a potential candidate for months, peaking two week ago when she told Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO-TV that she had been talking to people about entering the race. [...]
Des Moines civil rights attorney Roxanne Conlin has confirmed she will “more likely than not” enter the Democratic primary in hopes of unseating Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Conlin told Des Moines Register reporter Tom Beaumont that it was Grassley’s inflammatory rhetoric this summer during the debate over health care [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad will join five of his Republican rivals for the party’s gubernatorial nomination Nov. 7 at a fundraiser in Des Moines, making his first joint-candidate appearance since tentatively joining the campaign last week.
Branstad will join state Sen. Jerry Behn, businessman Christian Fong, state Rep. Chris Rants, state [...]
Even though Iowa’s presidential caucuses are more than two years away, an interesting debate is taking place about the role of Christian conservatives and the effect they could have on the Hawkeye State’s influence in 2012.
The debate is nothing new. Longtime Republicans strategists like Doug Gross and Rick Schwarm have [...]
An option on the Web site of the Department of Health and Human Services that allows users to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his efforts towards health care reform should result in a formal investigation, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley told the agency’s leader in a letter.
According to [...]
With former Gov. Terry Branstad’s tentative entrance into the already crowded field of Republican gubernatorial candidates, conventional wisdom dictates that several lesser-known hopefuls will likely exit the race.
Branstad has high name recognition and will undoubtedly be able to raise a huge campaign war chest quickly, which will likely drain resources [...]
The decision this week by the U.S. Justice Department not to prosecute people using, prescribing or distributing marijuana in states where it is legal is a step towards legitimizing drug use, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said.
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley (Lauren Victoria [...]
The Sioux City Journal’s Bret Hayworth sat down with Minnesota’s controversial Republican Rep. Michelle Bachmann Tuesday, and when talk turned to the 2012 presidential campaign she offered up a name that hasn’t surfaced as a potential contender: Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron.
From Hayworth’s blog:
Additionally, I asked Bachmann if she is [...]
He may not “officially” be in the race, but former Gov. Terry Branstad is already getting his share of attention from a chief rival for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination, Chris Rants.
Rants has started a new feature on his campaign Web site that pulls old newspaper articles that “pre-date [...]
Instead of resorting to layoffs to meet Gov. Chet Culver’s 10 percent across-the-board budget cuts, state government should implement an employee pay reduction, Iowa Tax Relief President Ed Failor Jr. said Monday.
“Sure, state employee budgets will feel the pinch of a pay cut; but a salary reduction over the course [...]
Speaking to members of an anti-immigration group over the weekend, GOP gubernatorial candidate Christian Fong made efforts to compare the actions of Chinese communists in the mid-20th Century to those of President Barack Obama.
According to The Des Moines Register:
Chinese communists swept to power in the last century without mentioning [...]
First District Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Waterloo, topped Iowa’s congressional delegation in third-quarter fundraising, bringing in more than $182,000. He now has $446,842 cash on hand.
Congressional campaigns had to turn in their quarterly fundraising reports this week, documenting money raised and spent between July 1 and Sept. 30. Information about other [...]
Incumbent Democratic Gov. Chet Culver would lose to former Republican Gov. Terry Branstad by five percentage points if the election were held today, according to the latest Research 2000 poll.
The October poll of 600 likely voters commissioned by the liberal blog Daily Kos found Branstad bests Culver 48-43 in [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad is expected to formally enter the 2010 gubernatorial campaign Friday at noon.
Branstad, who has for months flirted with the notion of re-entering politics, will deliver a speech to students, faculty and staff of Des Moines University in a closed session, with a news conference to follow. [...]
Following through on his promise early Tuesday to vote against a Senate Finance Committee version health care reform legislation, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued a statement saying the bill will now take on a life of its own.
The bill passed 14-9, with Republican Sen. Olympia Snow of Maine siding [...]
Jeff Boeyink, who has served as executive director of the Republican Party of Iowa since February, has resigned in order to lead the Terry Branstad 2010 Committee.
“This is the next natural step in our exploratory process as we move from a volunteer effort to the acquisition of professional staff and [...]
The Des Moines Independent Community School District, which has more than 30,000 enrolled students, will take the biggest hit from Gov. Chet Culver’s order to cut 10 percent across-the-board from the budget.
Iowa’s largest school district will see its budget cut by $15.7 million, according to figures released by [...]
The company that tried and failed to construct a coal-fired power plant in Marshalltown is contemplating giving it another try, this time with natural gas.
The Marshalltown Times-Republican’s Ken Black reports that Tom Aller, president of Interstate Power & Light, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy, told the Iowa Utilities Board that [...]
Regardless of assumptions made in an audit of the use of federal funds during his time as secretary of state, Gov. Chet Culver said Wednesday he is proud of the job he did.
“I am very proud of the fact that as secretary of state, we led the nation in voter [...]
Iowa Democrats wasted no time in attacking the record of former Gov. Terry Branstad, releasing a new Web ad Wednesday focusing on 80s pop culture and the four-term governor’s record on taxes and spending.
Branstad filed paperwork for a gubernatorial exploratory committee Wednesday morning.
The ad compares Branstad’s tenure to other [...]
Rep. Tom Latham’s opposition to health care reform legislation can partially be traced back to “lavish sun-splashed poolside buffets and warm afternoons on the links” paid for with money raised by his political action committee, Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said Monday afternoon.
“Latham has been taking the health insurers’ [...]
More than 25 percent of funds raised by Rep. Tom Latham’s political action committee during the 2008 election cycle paid for trips to resorts around the country, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission.
U.S. Rep. Tom Latham, R-Ames
Latham’s PAC, called [...]
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley is once again taking heat from social conservatives, this time in response to a speech he gave over the weekend at an Iowa Christian Alliance banquet.
Controversial Christian radio personality Steve Deace slammed Grassley in a blog post Monday morning, calling his speech “a long, rambling, [...]
The hopes of a bipartisan bill to reform the nation’s health care system were dashed after President Barack Obama told Democrats to walk away from the negotiating table, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said.
“We won’t have a bipartisan bill because the White House stepped in here two weeks ago and demanded [...]
Pressed by a Democratic colleague about his opposition to a public health insurance option in the face of his support for Medicare, a government-run insurance program for older Americans, Sen. Chuck Grassley said the difference is Medicare is part of America’s “social fabric.”
[...] 
GOP gubernatorial front-runner Bob Vander Plaats has officially endorsed an independent candidate running for a seat in the Iowa House.
Independent candidate Tom Shaw
Tom Shaw, a former chair of the Pocahontas County Republican Party, announced earlier this year he was leaving the party to run [...]
Responding to criticism from a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan reiterated that the party will not endorse or support any candidate before the primary.
Fairfield Democrat Bob Krause blasted Kiernan for statements he made on IPTV’s “Iowa Press” about another candidate the IDP chair [...]
Democratic candidate for senate Bob Krause is not happy about statements made by his party’s chairman regarding a fourth candidate entering the race to unseat Republican incumbent Chuck Grassley. In fact, said the talk “may threaten the integrity of the Iowa Democratic Party before the voters of Iowa”
During a taping [...]
While attacking the methods used by Gov. Chet Culver to balance the budget, GOP gubernatorial nominee Chris Rants took the opportunity to turn his attention to one of his potential Republican primary opponents, former Gov. Terry Branstad.
During an interview with conservative blog TheIowaRepublican.com, Rants accused [...]
Another Democrat will jump into the race to challenge U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley in 2010, and that candidate will give Iowa’s senior senator “the race of his life,” Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan said.
The news comes on the heels of evidence that Grassley could be vulnerable to a [...]
State officials were incorrect when they said Wednesday that the state would not have to issue tax credits for 109 film projects that received initial approval but are not under contract, Attorney General Tom Miller said Thursday.
“The state’s obligations and liabilities may not be determined solely by whether a contract [...]
Iowa administers 28 different state tax credits with an estimated total value of nearly $500 million, according to reserach done by Radio Iowa’s O.Kay Henderson.
In the wake of allegations of misconduct surrounding the state’s film tax credit program, Gov. Chet Culver said there needs to be a review [...]
Same-sex marriage is not only a radical social idea, it is a “purely socialist concept” and is part of a broader push by to turn the United States into a socialist country, U.S. Rep. Steve King said Wednesday during an interview with a conservative talk radio station.
[...] There is no need for legislators to get involved in the investigation into allegations of misconduct surrounding the state’s film tax credit program, Democratic leaders in the state House and Senate said Wednesday.
In a letter to their Republican counterparts, House Speaker Pat Murphy of Dubuque and Senate President Jack Kibbie [...]
The future cost of projects currently under contract as part of the tax credit program aimed at enticing filmmakers to work in the state is a little more than $78 million, according to figures released Wednesday by the Iowa Department of Economic Development.
An earlier report by The Des Moines Register [...]
The controversy surrounding the state’s tax credit program designed to lure film projects to Iowa is just a small part of a much bigger problem, Charles Bruner, co-director of the nonpartisan Iowa Fiscal Partnership, said Wednesday in in Op-Ed published by The Des Moines Register.
Bruner called the state’s tax [...]
Fred Hubbell has accepted Gov. Chet Culver’s offer to serve as the interim director of the Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED). He will replace Mike Tramontina, who resigned abruptly Friday.
Hubbell steps into the role with controversy swirling around a state tax credit administered by IDED aimed growing the Iowa’s [...]
Veteran Iowa journalist Chuck Offenburger, formerly with The Des Moines Register and now managing his own Web site, said the effort to convince former Gov. Terry Branstad to re-enter politics and run for a fifth term hurts the state GOP and damages progress the party’s new leadership has accomplished.
Last [...]
The Legislative Oversight Committee will discuss the possibility of an investigation of the state’s film tax credit program when the panel meets Thursday, the committee’s co-chair told Radio Iowa’s O.Kay Henderson.
Sen. Rich Olive, D-Story City, said the legislature may look at all of the state’s tax credit programs in order [...]
