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 […]

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






