The Iowa Legislature’s 2022 session dragged into mid-May with a stumbling block: a school voucher bill that Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds proposed to what usually has been the receptive, Republican-led House and Senate. The voucher bill, in the Students First Act, would create 10,000 voucher...
Opposition to the pipeline has emerged as a bipartisan issue in the state, with14 Republican members of the Iowa legislaturejoining Democrats in supporting a lawsuit that alleges state regulators violated the state constitution by approving the project. By participating in the anti-pipeline community ...
On June 12, 2023, the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission issued its first round of licenses; however, a few days later, the commission determined that the licensing procedure needed to be reviewed. November 7, 2023: No final licenses have been granted by the AMCC. On June 6, 2023, the A...
The Iowa Legislature approved the measure and sent it to Reynolds' desk late last month. Every Republican present for debate in the House and Senate voted for the legislation. Every Democrat voted against it. Reynolds, a Republican, signed the law Tuesday. In 2020, voters turned out...
September 2023:West Flagler is taking the case to the Florida Supreme Court, "asking that the court find that Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state legislature “exceeded” their power in approving a 2021 compact with the Seminole Tribe that grants the tribe a monopoly on sports betting." Somelega...
The last smudged letters COULD be and ‘s’ and a ‘t’. And Iowa has increasingly become a Red-MAGA state. Our governor and legislature have been actively encouraging and passing more hateful, authoritarian policies. So this sort of irrational hate is very possible. It doesn’t matter that...
Under the plan, Kansas lawmakers would be paid better than their counterparts in a majority of states — not only neighbors like Iowa and Missouri, but also more populous ones like New Jersey and Texas, according to National Conference of State Legislatures data. ...
Many said they were motivated to vote yes by the state Supreme Court’s conservative majority voting earlier this year to uphold an 1864 near-total abortion ban, which the Legislature narrowly repealed even as most GOP lawmakers voted to keep it in place. Yet the fate of...
The counties in those states that are reporting at least 95 percent of their votes have a median shift toward Trump of about 1 percent. But in a close election, that’s still not a trend Democrats would like to see. And Trump’s improvement across a...
Session ID: 2025-01-13:4c514753ac2f0428265e9d8c Player Element ID: politicoPlayer_m5vdk5s0esbeuv9chn OK Close Modal Dialog “This is an election that I believe — and I think the way that she thinks about what she is doing in this moment — it is bigger than just her ...