by Luke Martz | Aug 3, 2021 | Campaigns, Legislature, State Politics
Just days after her former opponent died, Democrat Andrea Phillips announced Monday she would run for the vacancy his passing created, before the funeral, even before a special election was called. Representative John Landon passed away last Thursday from cancer....
by Julian Garrett | Jul 20, 2021 | Legislature, Opinion
Inflation Increases You may recall that last month I warned of the danger of increasing inflation. The U. S. Bureau of Labor statistics has now released the figures for June. Inflation has increased to 5.4% over the 12 months ending in June. This compares with 5%...
by Luke Martz | Jun 17, 2021 | Legislature, State Government, State Politics
You surely missed it—because the mainstream press said nothing about it—but on the last night of the legislative session, when they hoped no one was watching, Senate Minority Leader Zach Wahls and his Democrat colleagues played a game of pure partisan politics on...
by Luke Martz | Jun 7, 2021 | Legislature, State Politics
Yesterday marked the anniversary of Operation Neptune. If that doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps you know it as the D-Day invasion of Normandy. The D-Day invasion of France is one of the most storied events in World War Two history. It marked the start of the Allied...
by Pat Grassley | May 24, 2021 | Legislature, Opinion
Last week, the Iowa Legislature concluded our work for the 2021 Legislative Session. As we left the Statehouse, we had much to be proud of. In January, I laid out a number of House Republicans’ priorities for the session. We were fresh off the campaign trail and in...
by Jason Schultz | May 23, 2021 | Legislature, Opinion
As America’s mainstream culture continues to devolve from a Christian values based-representative republic to a mob-rule, squeaky-wheel type democracy, the issues get more and more extreme. Unheard-of-before issues supported by very few rise to the surface, while the...
