Week five is coming to a close. Legislators have been extremely busy trying to get constituent bills through committee to meet funnel requirements. The funnel deadline is next Friday.Here is a brief description of high interest bills passed through committee in the Senate:Senate File 2086, ...
The Iowa legislature has understandably been undertaking the difficult process of de-appropriations since the session began. It is never easy to make cuts to the budget in the middle of a fiscal year, however, that is what must occur since our state's spending is growing faster than our ...
Valentine's Day is a few days away. But for many "romantically-challenged" of us guys, it's time to prepare. This day more than any other is stressful for men. I'm not sure why, it just is. We simply have a hard time with things like emotions, feelings, remembering, spending too much or heaven ...
They don't make the headlines. Their names are not in the box scores. They don't make the all-star teams. But some of the most important individuals in high school sports are the contest officials.These individuals are so important that, in fact, there would be no organized competitive, school ...
This week the bulk of our work was again focused on moving bills through subcommittees on to the full standing committee. In our standing committee meetings this week we voted on the bills that passed through sub committees last week.Here are the subcommittee bills and their respective standing ...
Over the last year, I've traveled to every corner of the state to listen and learn what's important to Iowans. I've learned that Iowans don't ask for much and they are also extremely tired of politics as usual. They just want a decent paying job and the chance to lead a happy, healthy life.I ...
Letter to the Editor:With so much controversy on what Letter to the Editor:With so much controversy on what to do with the Juvenile Home, and who to GIVE it to for $1.00, why give it to someone out of town. We have excellent home builders here in Tama and Toledo.Two come to mind immediately, ...
I got to thinking about the good lod days and how we did a lot of different things to keep the Wieting doors open. I discovered that we have a lot of talented people and we still do. They donated their time and talent to entertain everyone.The guild members were game to make and ride on floats ...
Newsletter for Thursday,February 1, 2018This week the House Republicans released our plan for a comprehensive school finance package. Since 2011 the Iowa legislature has become a leader in K-12 funding, increasing school funding by $735 million over that period. This represents roughly $1,000 ...
Facebook is quite an interesting phenomena, don't you think? Who would have thought that twenty years ago or so, one could stay in touch with friends, relatives and classmates all at the push of a button. Memories and pictures shared with anyone and probably everyone. Couldn't make it to the ...