Katarina Sostaric
State Government Reporter at Iowa Public Radio
State Government Reporter @IowaPublicRadio. Previously on air in Alaska and Missouri. Send me news: [email protected] Retweets are not endorsements
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3 weeks ago |
iowapublicradio.org | Katarina Sostaric
Iowa’s 2025 legislative session ended at 6:31 a.m. on Thursday after lawmakers worked through the night to negotiate the final details of the state budget. The Legislature passed major bills this session to limit eminent domain for carbon capture pipelines and remove civil rights protections for transgender Iowans. Most of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ priorities got through, including restricting cell phones in schools and cutting unemployment taxes for businesses.
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3 weeks ago |
iowapublicradio.org | Katarina Sostaric
The Iowa Senate passed a bill Monday night that would make it harder for carbon capture and other pipeline companies to use eminent domain. Republican leaders of the Iowa Senate refused to bring an eminent domain bill up for a vote for the past four years, even as House Republicans passed several bills in response to landowners’ concerns about Summit Carbon Solutions’ plan that got conditional state approval to take private land in the path of its proposed pipeline.
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3 weeks ago |
iowapublicradio.org | Katarina Sostaric |Grant Gerlock
State Auditor Rob Sand, a Democrat, announced Monday he is running for governor of Iowa in 2026. Sand was first elected as state auditor in 2018 and was reelected to a second term in 2022. He was the only Democrat to win a statewide office in Iowa that year. Sand, 42, is originally from Decorah and now lives in Des Moines.
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4 weeks ago |
iowapublicradio.org | Katarina Sostaric
Iowa House Democrats elected Rep. Brian Meyer of Des Moines to be the new House minority leader after Rep. Jennifer Konfrst announced Thursday that she was stepping down from her leadership post to run for Congress. Meyer, 51, is an attorney who was first elected to the House in 2013 and is currently serving as minority whip.
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1 month ago |
iowapublicradio.org | Katarina Sostaric
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ plan to provide “healthy” foods for low-income Iowa kids over the summer, instead of sending their families money for food, has been approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Her plan was initially denied last year by former President Joe Biden’s administration, but she resubmitted the request to President Donald Trump’s administration earlier this year.
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