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Iowa Legislature Renames Lake Okoboji “Kari Lake”
National Rebranding Standards Cited DES MOINES — Iowa lawmakers voted last week to rename Lake...
Iowa411 News Briefs for January 26, 2026
Summary Across these stories runs a consistent thread; centralization of authority paired with...
Iowa411 News Briefs for January 25, 2026
Three Bills, Three Visions of Governance Taken together, these three stories reveal a stark...
Iowa411 News Briefs for January 24, 2026
Summary At first glance, today’s stories may appear unrelated: gunfire at a community event,...
Iowa411 News Briefs for January 23, 2026
Summary From rising health insurance premiums and shrinking ACA enrollment to clinic closures in...
The Skinny
Iowa’s Wind Energy: When Federal Policy Defeats Local Promise
This article examines the economic and energy-grid consequences of Trump-era clean-energy rollbacks in Iowa. It explains...
Iowa’s “Biggest Tax Cut Ever” – The Hard Truth Behind the Hype
Iowa Representatives and Senators Try to Sell their Big Beautiful Tax Cuts When Iowa’s Congressional delegation (both House...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...