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Iowa411 News Briefs for December 12, 2025
Summary Today’s stories follow a clear pattern. Policy choices driven by ideology and political...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 11, 2025
Summary Across today’s stories, one thread stands out: federal intervention – who gets it, how...
Iowa411 News Briefs for December 10, 2025
Summary Today’s Iowa landscape shows growing tension within the Iowa GOP: Feenstra’s continued...
The Skinny
News Briefs: Health, SNAP Crisis, and a New Iowa Superfood
Iowans Face Rising Health Insurance Premiums Thousands of Iowans are bracing for steep health insurance hikes as enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire at the end of 2025. With insurers filing 2026 rate increases from 12.5% to more than 25%, some middle-income...
AG Bird All-in for Supporting Trump Birthright Citizenship Policy
AG Bird Leads States in Supporting Trump Birthright Citizenship Policy Traditionally, a state attorney general is the people’s lawyer – an official who defends the rule of law, protects the rights of all residents, and exercises their authority without political or...
Food Deprivation: A Crisis Manufactured to Hurt Americans
This essay explores how the suspension of SNAP benefits during the 2025 federal government shutdown is not an accident of policy, but a deliberate choice by the administration to withhold food aid from millions of Americans. It shows that billions in contingency funds...
States Sue to Keep SNAP Benefits as Trump Moves to End Them
Shutdown fight threatens to cut off aid for 43 million Americans Attorneys general and governors from 25 Democratic-led states filed suit Oct. 28 to block the Trump administration from halting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments beginning Nov. 1,...
The Triad Expands: Iowa Education Enforcer Heads to Washington
Editor's Note: The Gazette reported on October 29 that David Barker's move to Washington has been postponed due to the federal government shutdown. In the interim, Barker will remain as a member of the Iowa Regents.A Quiet Exit, a Loud Agenda David Barker’s...