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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...

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...

Iowa has one of the strongest traditions of military service in the nation. For the students ready to carry that tradition forward, attending a U.S. Service Academy is one of the greatest...

In 2016, a Chinese national was caught digging proprietary seed corn out of an Iowa field to steal the genetics behind some of America’s most valuable crops. Nearly a decade later, the threat has...

250 years ago today, our Founders declared America's independence knowing the law they were defying was treason. Fifty-six men signed their names anyway — pledging their lives, their fortunes, and...

When Iowans retire, they collect the pension they earned. When Members of Congress retire, too many cash in: six-figure lobbying jobs with the very industries they used to regulate, while still...

When Iowa families sit down to plan for retirement, save for their kids' college education, or prepare to buy their first home, they don't turn to a hedge fund manager on Wall Street — they call...

Over the past few weeks, severe storms rolled across southern Iowa. Strong winds flattened corn along the Highway 2 and Highway 30 corridors, hail damaged soybean fields, and floodwaters washed over...

In 2024, I stood at an Iowa grave site as Joseph Chedester, a Union soldier, was finally laid to rest with full military honors, nearly a century after he died. For decades, his remains sat...