The Legislature took an important step last week in voting to toughen penalties for state and local officials who violate a key government transparency tool, Iowa’s open meetings law.
Unfortunately, lawmakers’ actions may not be enough to reverse the love for secrecy that too many government boar
The Quad-City Times Editorial Board points to examples of progress coming from the Iowa legislative session, including a transparency bill responding to city issues in Davenport that increases penalties for violating open meetings laws.
Iowa state lawmakers wrapped up their legislative session last week after putting the finishing touches on an $8.9 billion budget About a billion dollars will go to education – that’s for public schools, higher education and other programs. It amounts to a 2 ½ percent increases for schools and colleges. Other legislation changes the way […]
There were a lot of pieces of legislation that didn’t make it to the governor this session. One is the Pesticide Protection Bill that we talked about on this program a few weeks ago. Another that would force public school students to sing part of the National Anthem every day didn’t make it either. Host […]
Host Jim Niedelman returns with Iowa State Senators Scott Webster and Cindy Winckler. It wouldn’t be an Iowa legislative session with Republicans in charge without some kind of tax cuts. Republicans managed to speed up the income tax cut by a year. It will establish a 3.8 percent flat tax for everyone starting in the […]