February 27, 2025

The Iowa Capitol is packed with protesters as the Iowa legislature is poised to debate legislation to remove gender identity from the state’s Civil Rights Act. A 90-minute public hearing got underway at 9:30 a.m. and Representative Steven Holt, a Republican from Denison who is the bill’s floor manager in the House, opened with a […] View Full Story

The U.S. House budget blueprint that won approval this week calls for cutting federal spending on Medicaid by about $880-billion over the next decade, but Second District Iowa Congresswoman Ashley Hinson says that should -not- translate to Medicaid recipients seeing cuts in payments. “The bill that we passed this week is simply a budget resolution […] View Full Story

Iowa State coach Matt Campbell has announced the hiring of North Dakota State offensive coordinator Jake Landry as the program’s new running backs coach. Landry spent the 2024 season serving as running backs coach and offensive coordinator for FCS National Champion North Dakota State after two seasons as OC and quarterbacks coach at St. Thomas, […] View Full Story

Construction will start in a few weeks on an Agricultural Learning Center on the Hamilton County Fairgrounds in Webster City, only the second facility of its kind in the state. Gene Gourley, a fifth-generation farmer from Webster City, says the plans for this ag education center have long been in the works. “We have a […] View Full Story

A public hearing starts at 9:30 today in the state capitol and, by the time it ends late this morning, Iowans will have had about three hours to testify to lawmakers about a bill to remove gender identity from the state’s Civil Rights Act. Chuck Hurley of The Family Leader, who has testified for the […] View Full Story

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says he’s encouraged by the announcement of a plan by the U.S. Ag Secretary to address Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza. Naig tells Radio Iowa it is a five-pronged plan. “To say, what more can we do? And how can we try to get ahead of this? Of course, that’s […] View Full Story