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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds attracted national attention after tweeting an image that was comically ill-suited for a Passover greeting.

Paul Brennan/Little Village The Iowa House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of a bill intended to prohibit so-called “vaccine passports” on Monday. The bill was introduced on Friday, two weeks after Gov. Kim Reynolds called for such legislation. “I strongly oppose vaccine passports and I believe that we must take a stand as a state against them, which I intend to do either through legislation or executive action,” the governor said during her April 7 news conference. Of course, vacc...

“Because different counties use different methods a uniform approach for counting ballots wasn’t performed.” After a flawed and inconsistent recount left at least 22 voters disenfranchised and thousands of ballots unexamined in Iowa’s Second Congressional District, a bipartisan group of county auditors in Iowa have issued recommended reforms to address some of the issues that left legally cast votes uncounted in IA-02. As KCRG reported last night, these Republican and Democratic electio...