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Bill advances to ban use of ‘1619 Project’ in Iowa schools
Skyler Wheeler
Republicans on an Iowa House subcommittee have advanced a bill that would pull state funding from public schools if a
New York Times series about slavery is used in history classes.
Representative Skyler Wheeler, a Republican from Orange City who is the bill’s sponsor, said the 1619 Project is projecting “a clear viewpoint.”
“It seeks to distort facts, not simply teach them and it does so as leftist political propaganda masquerading as history,” Wheeler said.
Rita Davenport, who spoke at a statehouse subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, said the 1619 project promotes Black “victimhood.”
DES MOINES - A proposal to allow legislators to question Supreme Court justices and overturn their decisions found little support among lobbyists, subcommittee members and, perhaps, most importantly, the Judiciary Committee s chairman.
âItâs done,â House Judiciary Committee Chairman Steve Holt, R-Denison, said Tuesday.
Although he is among Republicans lawmakers who frequently criticize decisions by âunelected judgesâ and âradical courts,â Holt said there were too many problems with the bill.
House File 109 was proposed by Rep. Sandy Salmon, R-Janesville, as a âjudicial accountability bill.â
Salmon Associated Press
Salmon, Holt and other Republicans have complained that the Iowa Supreme Court has created new law in some cases, such as the Varnum decision legalizing same-sex marriage, and in 2018 found a right to abortion in the state constitution.
Salmonâs plan would have provided the Legislature with a process for reviewing â and potentially overturning â any state Supreme Court decision that invalidates a law or has the effect of creating new law.
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Bill to crack down on ‘coyotes’ bringing workers to Iowa construction sites
A group of senators is working on a bill aimed at unscrupulous recruiters who supply workers for taxpayer-funded construction projects in Iowa.
Felicia Hilton of the Carpenters Union said they’ve documented cases of labor brokers who pay substandard wages to workers or don’t pay them at all.
“Right now, they’re hidden,” Hilton said during a Senate subcommittee hearing this morning. “We’re not talking about the workers. We’re talking about the broker, the coyote, the people trafficking or bringing people into the state of Iowa to perform work this way and to leave them unpaid.”
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January 29, 2021
The City will be hosting and co-hosting numerous events throughout February 2021 to commemorate Black History Month. The month will feature book clubs, presentations, lessons, and more, aimed at celebrating the impact Black Americans have had on our country, and educating people on the barriers Black Americans have faced, and still face today.
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Subscribe Their Eyes Were Watching God book club & discussion The City s Black History Month book club centers on the iconic novel by Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God.
A Zoom discussion of the book will be held at
7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Facilitated by Abena Sankofa Imhotep, Director of Sankofa Literary and Empowerment Group Des Moines, the book discussion is hosted by the Office of Equity and Human Rights, and the Iowa City Public Library.