Year: 2017

Democrats in the legislature are seizing on what they consider an olive branch from Iowa’s new governor. Senate Democratic Leader Rob Hogg of Cedar Rapids attended today’s ceremony installing Republican Kim Reynolds as governor and he heard her first address. “On the issues that she laid out, those are issues that we’re willing to work with […]Powered by WPeMatico

Iowa has a new governor. Kim Reynolds took the oath of office shortly after 10:45 this morning. Reynolds will serve out the remaining 18 months of the sixth term Governor Terry Branstad won from Iowa voters in 2014. “I’m incredibly proud to stand before you today as your governor,” Reynolds said in her first address […]Powered by WPeMatico

A group of 85 veterans left from Cedar Rapids early this morning on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C. George Rickey of the Eastern Iowa Honor Flights talked with KCRG TV about what is in store for the veterans. He says they are going to see all the memorials dedicated to veterans. “They are going […]Powered by WPeMatico

Governor Terry Branstad has resigned and been sworn in as the Ambassador to China.  Powered by WPeMatico

A new survey of rural bankers in Iowa and several other Midwest states suggests the ag economy is improving. Creighton University’s “Rural Mainstreet Index” hit a two-year high in May. Economist Ernie Goss conducts the monthly survey and says lender confidence levels on the rural economy for May inched into positive territory for the first […]Powered by WPeMatico

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey says farmers have been able to catch up quite a bit in their planting with some days of dry weather. But he says some of the corn that’s already emerged may have been in too much water to make it. “They’ll be a little bit of replant where some water […]Powered by WPeMatico

The woman who will become Iowa’s next governor later this morning credits her “small town roots” with propelling her to this point in her political career. Republican Kim Reynolds will take the oath of office at about 10:30 this morning, shortly after Governor Terry Branstad resigns and is sworn in by a federal judge as the next U.S. […]Powered by WPeMatico

Starting next week, it’ll become legal to buy and set off fireworks in Iowa over certain dates. Jeffrey Weichman, of Corning, is a professional pyrotechnician who’s been shooting fireworks for a Yarmouth company since 1993. Weichman says there are rules for celebrating safely and the first rule is to keep fireworks away from buildings and […]Powered by WPeMatico