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Apr. 20—After years of rejecting efforts to legalize medical and recreational marijuana, several Republican lawmakers on Wednesday promoted a medical cannabis measure — but with session over, there's almost no chance legislators pass the bill this year. Rallying in support of full legalization for years, some Democrats said the legislation doesn't go far enough to legalize a drug that most ...
CHICAGO — University of Illinois Chicago professor Dick Simpson has lived a life in Chicago’s political and academic spheres for more than 50 years: 44th Ward alderman from 1971-1979; executive board member of the Illinois Political Science Association, a former congressional candidate, political consultant, author and has served on transition teams that advised elected officials such as ...
Transgender rights have emerged as a major issue in the buildup to November mid-term congressional elections. Of the hundreds of bills that ha…
Reuters reports that on April 5, lawmakers in Oklahoma passed a bill that would make abortions illegal in the state with the exception of medi…
DES MOINES — Proposals for three more pipelines across Iowa are highlighting divisions over the use of eminent domain to acquire access to pri…
DES MOINES — More than 2,500 pieces of legislation have been introduced so far during the 2022 session of the Iowa Legislature.
Walt Disney Co. is suspending its political donations in Florida after the company's CEO received huge blowback for not using Disney's vast in…
But specifics will have to wait for the Legislature to gavel in
Some chance in Legislature for ‘moving smaller pieces forward’
Troops surrounded Tunisia’s parliament and blocked its speaker from entering Monday after the president suspended the legislature and fired th…
Democrats in the Texas Legislature on Monday bolted for Washington, D.C., and said they were ready to remain there for weeks in a second revol…
The Justice Department under former President Donald Trump seized data from the accounts of at least two members of the House Intelligence Com…
State Auditor Rob Sand, who is eyeing a run for governor next year, says Gov. Kim Reynolds violated Iowa law by using federal funds to pay for…
The European Union has reached a deal approving COVID-19 certificates that would help reopen nonessential travel across the 27-nation bloc this summer.
Georgia’s state Senate narrowly passed a bill that would end no-excuse absentee voting on Monday, as Republicans move to roll back voting acce…
Accusations that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's sexually harassed women on the job are "disgusting," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.
There is no “easy button” to press to redraw congressional and legislative election districts in a year that could prove especially hard since…
DES MOINES — A proposal to allow legislators to question Supreme Court justices and overturn their decisions found little support among lobbyi…
President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court in a flag-bedecked ceremony at the White House Rose Garden.
Florida can bar ex-felons from voting if they owe court fines or fees associated with their convictions, even if they are unable to pay, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
DES MOINES — Gov. Kim Reynolds made good Wednesday on a promise by signing an executive order that automatically restores many felon voting rights.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today reflected on landmark agriculture provisions passed by the Iowa Legislature during the 2019 sess…
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Local school officials are surprised and disappointed the Iowa Legislature did not extend the one-cent sales tax for school infrastructure dur…