A bill to ban smoking at Iowa casinos has failed to clear a subcommittee in the Iowa Senate as operators of state licensed casinos objected, arguing they’d lose customers. Tony Phillips is a lobbyist for Penn Gaming, which operates the Ameristar Casino in Council Bluffs. “Just a blocks away from our facility in Council Bluffs […]

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






