I’m always grateful for the chance to connect with you and hear directly about the issues that matter most. I appreciated the opportunity to hear from so many constituents and share about the victories we’ve had for Iowans already this session at the League of Women Voters forum in Story ...
Each year for Tax Day, my colleagues and I at the Institute for Policy Studies release a tax receipt so you can learn where your taxes are actually going. This year, you may be more worried about the price of eggs than your tax dollars. But with President Trump now urging a $1 trillion ...
I must be getting old. I find I can now sit down and read and enjoy high-brow intellectual, philosophical, God-consciousness books and get a lot of good out of them. It probably has something to do with me being ill with what might be a catastrophic illness and thinking about mortality. Don’t ...
Friends, House Ways & Means Committee Approves Farm to Table Meat Sales All session long, I have been working on this bill, and I was able to get it through the Agriculture committee and now the Ways and Means committee. It is now eligible for a floor vote. On Wednesday, April 9, ...
National Library Week is April 6-12, 2025 — this is a time for communities to celebrate all public libraries and librarians across the country do to bring people together, spark creativity, and support lifelong learning. Public libraries do so much for communities throughout the state of ...
The late newspaper columnist Bill Wundram of the Quad-City Times in Davenport wrote seven days a week for 31 years. Many of his columns, highlighting a wide variety of concerns in his home community, included the refrain, “Is anybody there? Does anybody care?” That plaintive question came ...