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On July 4, 2025, the largest tax cut in American history was signed into law. The results are already showing up in Iowa: this spring, refunds ran 11% higher and the average Iowa family put just...

For 11 days every August, the best of Iowa comes together in one place. The livestock barns fill up, the Grandstand lights turn on, and the smell of something fried pulls you halfway across the...

Dialysis is three days a week, for the rest of your life. For eleven people in Wayne County, the nearest open chair is seventy-five miles away. What’s new: Yesterday, we broke ground on a new...

Iowa farmers, families and local leaders make thousands of decisions every year based on the weather. While we can't control when the next flood or drought hits, we can make sure Iowans have the...

Iowa is one of the best states in the nation to start or grow a business. In the past year, manufacturers like Robinson and Vermeer have invested hundreds of millions in new facilities in the Des...

For the crew at Auto-Jet in Clive, overtime pay covers the bills at the end of a long month. For the servers at Whiskey River in Ankeny, tips are the majority of every paycheck. This week, I brought...

If you’ve ever driven Highway 141 in Johnston, you know the drill. You pull up to the edge of the highway, wait for a break in high-speed traffic, and then hit the gas, hoping you’ve timed it...

Members of Congress should spend their time writing laws, not picking stocks. Yet today you can download an app that automatically copies the stock trades of Representatives into your own investment...

For years, families across rural Iowa have been asking me the same simple question: How do we get more doctors to stay here?  We do it by giving future physicians the chance to train here, build...

Back up: Earlier this year, schools in Des Moines, Marshalltown, and two of Iowa's regent universities were caught up in a breach of the Canvas learning platform that hit 9,000 schools worldwide —...

The Iowans who count on SNAP to put groceries on the table — a senior on a fixed income, a young mom working to make ends meet — are exactly who this program is meant to serve. The numbers USDA just...

The 132nd Wing in Des Moines once held the best F-16 training record in American history. Then its flying mission was taken away — and the F-16s with it. Zoom in: Iowa's Guardsmen didn't give up —...

Yesterday I stood at the rail of the show ring at the Polk County Fair, watching four of my daughters walk the animals they've helped raise since last summer. Kelly and all six of our kids were...

Iowa is the agricultural hub of America and one of the nation's top manufacturing leaders. That's because hardworking Iowans show up before sunrise, load the truck, and move what Iowa makes to every...

Every Iowa family knows what it means to make a dollar count. Growing up around my family's century farm, I learned that waste wasn't an option. If you invested a dollar, you expected more than a...

Growing up around my family’s century farm, I learned firsthand that Iowa farmers have always been the first to put new technology to work when it helps them produce more with less, conserve...

If you were watching on June 24, you saw it. Caitlin Clark took a hard shot to the throat and no one blew the whistle. The league sorted it out afterward — a flagrant foul and a one-game suspension...

Last summer, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat from neighboring Missouri, made the trip to Des Moines to stand beside me at a Habitat for Humanity build site as we introduced our bipartisan rural...

Out in Ringgold County, there's no federal highway. County roads like P33 are the highway system: it's how farmers get crops to market, how kids get to school, how deliveries reach Main Street in...

Every morning before I leave the house for another stop on my 21-county tour or head to Washington to fight for Iowa, one of my kids asks me some version of this question: How many days until the...