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Mailbag: April 29, 2025
Our business, Faust Institute of Cosmetology, relies on imports. Like many cosmetology schools, the products we sell to our customers and use to teach our students come from overseas. Without beauty imports, our industry will be significantly impacted. Tariffs have made it impossible to predict costs, and they’ve disrupted our supply chain, which has left us wondering how our business will be impacted in the long term.
Ernst: Here’s How Congress Can Save Millions Of American Jobs
As the chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I am working to ensure that these historically successful tax cuts that allowed small businesses to grow and invest in communities are not just extended but made permanent.
The stakes could not be higher. If Congress fails to act, the American people will be hit with a $4 trillion tax increase, the largest in history.
We Must Reverse the Biden Administration’s Pause on LNG Exports
Globally, according to the Energy Information Agency, primary energy consumption is expected to increase through 2050 by somewhere between 16 percent and 57 percent, and global demand for natural gas will increase by 41 percent by 2050. However, if the U.S. allows Biden’s war on energy to continue, we will limit our LNG exports, and that will have a domino effect on global LNG consumption.
Mailbag: February 24, 2024
Empowering Iowa Retirees As retirees, many of us in Iowa have spent a lifetime working hard, saving diligently, and investing wisely to secure our financial futures. Our retirement accounts represent our past efforts and our hopes for a comfortable and secure future...
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2023 Fundraising Reports: Reynolds Reigns Supreme, Republican Leaders Come in Strong
It’s been a minute, but what better time to dust off the site than with a 2023 state fundraising roundup.
The numbers don’t lie: Gov. Reynolds still reigns supreme with her campaign hauling in $1,386,505. To put that in perspective, especially for those doubting Reynolds’ dominance or political future, she raised as much as every single statewide executive official combined… times two.
Want to win in Iowa? Here’s what you need to know.
If you don’t know by now, Iowa caucus-goers are built different. Voters across the country groan when the first political ad airs, when candidates come to town, when the first political call of the season hits the phones…but not Iowa caucus-goers. For them, the mail,...
Parents are back in charge – Libs are furious
I’ll tell you what’s a dumpster fire - random outdated analogies from 30 years ago that make no sense and fall flat. In case you missed it, in a late-week opinion dump, Laura Belin posted unoriginal dribbling from longtime union hack, Bruce Lear. Honestly, at this...
Axne opts against challenging Rep. Zach Nunn
Axne, first elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2020, lost her bid for a third term to freshman Republican Zach Nunn by just over 2,100 votes in one of the most competitive races in the country. Axne’s campaign was plagued with scandals, including a report by Fox News that she voted by proxy for the Inflation Reduction Act while vacationing with her family in France.
Hinson: Standing up for the Second Amendment
The right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in our Constitution; it is our inherent guarantee that the government will never overpower its citizens. However, the Biden Administration and many on the left continue to twist and undermine the Second Amendment – they...
Will IDP Keep Its Stolen Money?
Back in December, The Des Moines Register did some digging. They reported a whopping $250,000 contribution from Nishnad Singh to the Iowa Democratic Party. $250,000 is a massive contribution from a west coast tech bro to a state party with no competitive statewide...
Rob Sand Kills Laura Belin’s Open Records Lawsuit
To repeat: Sand knew about the emails, was asked by Lathrop for the emails, and refused to produce them. Sand’s justification, at that time, was that he wasn’t “not the lawful custodian of the email.” Though he didn’t elaborate, Lathrop read Sand’s office as saying they wouldn’t produce government emails that were on personal email accounts.
Why is Woke Big Tech secretly trying to change Iowa’s electric grid?
The spokesperson for the group, R.G. Schwarm, spent the better part of an hour talking about how Iowans want more competition in the electricity markets but then he went on to say his group wasn’t actually pushing for competition for Iowans. Instead, the group was just making the case that its “large energy user” members should be able to break away from Iowa’s electric grid and leave Iowa ratepayers picking up the bill.
EXCLUSIVE: Iowa-Based Organization Launches Six Figure Ad Buy in Support of School Choice
“But money alone isn’t the solution. Parents also need choice. To send their kids to whatever school is best for them” Governor Reynolds says in the Priorities for Iowa advertisement.
