by Mariannette Miller-Meeks | Sep 17, 2021 | Congress, Opinion
As a Member of the United States House of Representatives from the great state of Iowa, I have the honor of representing the interests of family farmers, producers, and ranchers. Farming is a way of life for many Iowans, and we all understand how our local farmers...
by Randy Feenstra | Sep 16, 2021 | Congress, Opinion
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently announced that, within the next month, the federal government will exhaust so-called “extraordinary measures” that are being used to fund our debt obligations. Put simply, this means a fight to raise the debt ceiling will be at...
by Luke Martz | Sep 13, 2021 | Education, Governor, Opinion
Judge Robert W. Pratt has struck down Gov. Kim Reynolds’s mask mandate ban. Pratt, a federal judge, serving in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, issued the ruling today in Des Moines. The ruling, in a nutshell, says that, in the judge’s view,...
by Chris Ingstad | Sep 13, 2021 | Opinion
“I’m just going to have to sell my house because I can’t afford it.” Iowans have repeated this same refrain, or something similar, over and over for years and they’re justified in feeling that way. Consider some of these trends over the past decade from across the...
by Iowa Field Report | Sep 10, 2021 | Media, Opinion
As Iowans learn to live with the COVID-19 pandemic, data and opinions have come at them from all directions. One of the leading voices in Iowa (leading because the Iowa press made it so) is Sara Anne Willette, otherwise known on Twitter as @amethystarlight. She dubs...
by Senator Joni Ernst | Sep 10, 2021 | Congress, Opinion
As a company commander who served in Kuwait and Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom—and someone who spent 23 years of my life serving in the United States military alongside some of the best and brightest our country has to offer—the last few weeks have been extremely...
