State officials started the process of closing the State Historical Research Center in Iowa City last summer and a bill that’s cleared a Senate subcommittee would give the Iowa Department of Administrative Services authority to shut it down for good on June 30. Republican Senator Carrie Koelker of Dyersville said Iowa taxpayers shouldn’t be footing […]

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






