Pressure on us, getting an adequate agreement on Education Funding early in this session. Hogg and other lawmakers also want to see progress on cleaning up iowas polluted waterways, oversight on the states move toward privatized medicaid services, and more emphasis on helping small business. 29 43 weve become too focused on one thing only, and thats agriculture. We need to diversify even more. And that helps if we help those young people and people going through life changes in a startup situation for a business. In des moines, brady smith, kcrg tv 9 news. For the first time in history, a woman is leading the iowa house. Republican Linda Upmeyer from clear lake took over as iowas speaker of the house for the first time today. Upmeyer is taking the gavel from kraig paulsen, a republican from hiawatha who stepped down after last session. Three years ago, pam jochum became her partys first female Iowa Senate President , where she still serves. Between jochum and upmeyer, the Iowa Legislat
Warm front moves in tomorrow, which should help out in the temperatures as we head back into the 20s areawide. We are still on track for 30s on thursday after this, a system is still on track for friday and possibly a second one for saturday. In either case, we are too far out for any details on amounts or impacts. Well be watching this as we move forward. Stay warm out there today windy and cold high 28 winds nw 1530tonight partly cloudy low 42 winds w 515tomorrow m cloudy, sct. Flurries high 2026 winds s 515tomorrow night partly cloudy low 1622 winds sw 510 linn county Auditor Joel Miller says hes sorry the countys annual valuation report isnt ready. And that could impact your property taxes. He says system issues means the system wont produce a report he can approve. Cities, townships, and School Districts use the report to determine their yearly budgets. If that number is lower than the previous year, it could raise taxes. Miller says people have inquired about the system, and he w
Thursday after this, a system is still on track for friday and possibly a second one for saturday. In either case, we are too far out for any details on amounts or impacts. Well be move forward. Stay warm out there today windy and cold high 28 cloudy low 42 sct. Flurries high 2026 winds s 515tomorrow night low 1622 winds sw 510 thanks kaj. Linn county Auditor Joel Miller says hes sorry the countys annual valuation report isnt ready. And that could impact your property taxes. He says system issues means the system wont produce a report he can approve. Cities, townships, and School Districts use the report to determine their yearly budgets. If that number is lower than the previous year, it could raise taxes. Miller says people have inquired about the system, and about the situation. Im sorry this happened, i dont like it myself, very upset about it, doing what we can do to fix it, well get it fixed as soon as we can, use the numbers from last year until we can get you the numbers for th