by Sarah Curry | Aug 15, 2022 | Opinion, State Government
The COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, yet the federal government took over a year to direct financial relief to municipalities across the country through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The pandemic hit local communities across Iowa hard, but our governments...
by John Hendrickson | Oct 29, 2021 | Opinion, Policy, Taxation
Governor Kim Reynolds and the legislature will have an opportunity to enact significant tax reform in 2022. Iowa’s fiscal house is in strong condition with a $1.24 billion surplus and the recent Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) projections show strong revenue...
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 Chris Ingstad | Sep 30, 2020 | Opinion
Many emergency COVID-19 stimulus plans are floating around Congress, all of which propose the disbursement of massive sums of taxpayer dollars. The final bill for another round of stimulus will likely be anywhere from hundreds of billions to several trillion dollars,...
