As the federal government shutdown continues, agencies that help the needy pay their heating bills are in limbo, like Iowa’s LIHEAP, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. Danna Buls is executive director at MATURA Action Corporation, which serves low-income residents in southwest Iowa. In the past, Buls says the government had workarounds to pay […]

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






