The wide ranging energy bill Governor Reynolds submitted to the legislature includes a provision that’s been the subject of legal wrangling for the past five years. The bill would let the state’s major electricity providers, like MidAmerican and Alliant, have the “right of first refusal” or first chance at building new transmission lines. Doug Struyk […]

Bill makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a crime in Iowa
Human smuggling of undocumented immigrants — to conceal them from law enforcement — would become a crime in Iowa if a






