by Luke Martz | Sep 27, 2021 | Governor, Legislature
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Monday morning that under her and Republican legislative leadership, the State of Iowa would end the 2021 fiscal year with a $1,238.6 billion budget surplus in its General Fund. “Iowa is in a very strong financial position due to...
by John Hendrickson | Sep 20, 2021 | Governor, Opinion
The Des Moines Register released a new poll that shows a 53 percent job approval rating for Governor Kim Reynolds. This is up from 51 percent from the last poll. Governor Reynolds approval rating is even higher, 57 percent, when asked how she has handled Iowa’s...
by Luke Martz | Sep 13, 2021 | Education, Governor, Opinion
Judge Robert W. Pratt has struck down Gov. Kim Reynolds’s mask mandate ban. Pratt, a federal judge, serving in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, issued the ruling today in Des Moines. The ruling, in a nutshell, says that, in the judge’s view,...
by Caleb Lillquist | Aug 22, 2021 | Governor, Legislature
The never-ending debate of masks continues as Iowa City just announced that they would institute a mask mandate despite being in direct violation of State law. Earlier this summer, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill banning mask mandates statewide to give Iowan...
by Luke Martz | Aug 5, 2021 | Campaigns, Governor
The Iowa State Fair is back, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds is celebrating, and liberals are screaming. With vaccines free and available to anyone who wants one, the greatest state fair on earth is returning August 12-22, having been canceled last year because of the...
by Governor Kim Reynolds | Aug 2, 2021 | Governor, Opinion
Earlier this month, I deployed members of the Iowa State Patrol to the U.S. Southern border to support law enforcement and border security efforts on a 14-day mission called “Operation Lone Star.” While some thought it was necessary to portray this mission as...
