Facebook executive Mark Zuckerberg will have to answer to members of Congress this week about the company’s management of user data. He’s slated to testify
The Head of the Iowa Department of Human Services is defending the state’s privatized Medicaid system, after a scathing report last week by the state ombudsman.
The report said complaints from patients and providers jumped by 157% last year, making Medicaid one of the top targets of complaints from citizens reporting difficulties with the government.
Since April of 2016, for-profit companies have managed the program for 640,000 Iowans who are poor or disabled.
We’re headed into the last few weeks of the legislative session, and as usual for a Monday, IPR’s Clay Masters and Statehouse Correspondent Joyce Russell chatted about the legislature on Morning Edition.
Gov. Reynolds won’t face a primary challenge, but the possibility of a challenge hasn’t seemed to affect her work. Russell says the governor had a limited legislative agenda this year, primarily consisting of the “Future Ready” workforce development legislation, which she has already signed.
Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate will return to the negotiating table at the capitol Monday, hoping to find agreement within their party on tax cuts that will clear the way for adjournment of this year’s legislative session.
A Senate bill cuts taxes more than the governor and the Republican-controlled House are recommending. Work on the more than $7 billion state budget can’t get underway in earnest until the tax issues are resolved.
Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver thinks a resolution on taxes and targets for the budget can be completed this week.
The Iowa Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday in one of four cases involving traffic cameras.
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Muscatine argue the Iowa Department of Transportation doesn’t have the authority to regulate how cities enforce their traffic laws.
In 2015, the IDOT ordered the three cities to remove some of their speed cameras. The cities sued, and in 2017, a district court upheld the IDOT order. The cities appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court.
Iowa’s senior U. S. Senator is downplaying some of the concerns over proposed tariffs on Chinese imports.. Farmers are bracing for a potential trade war which could threaten corn, soybean and hog sales. While Sen. Chuck Grassley acknowledges the impacts could hurt farmers, he says it’s too early to be too worried.
