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After a court order, Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has handed over more than 10,000 emails related to the partisan review of the states 2020 elections to the independent watchdog group American Oversight. The probe, commissioned by Vos and led by former state supreme court justice Michael Gableman, has a taxpayer-funded budget of $676,000. Ronald Stadler, Vos attorney, said in a court hearing Thursday not all the documents are actually related to the investigation, as attorneys us...

The Maine Legislature passed a bill on Tuesday to strengthen protections in the law for election workers and volunteers. In a recent survey of almost 600 election officials nationwide, one in six respondents said theyd been threatened personally, with more than half of those threats not reported to law enforcement. State Rep. ...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is on the cusp of being confirmed as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. While Iowas senior U.S. ...

Matt Sinovic and Sue Dinsdale: Corporations and the wealthy have rigged the economy in their favor, with help from their allies in Congress.

Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley announced Monday he would not support Judge Ketanji Brown Jacksons nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Matt Sinovic: Fewer Iowans are working today than when Corporate Kim Reynolds took office, and a new tax law rewards wealth, not work.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has been chosen to deliver the official Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address next week.

Similar to previous hearings, speakers on Monday were divided between those who said a flatter tax rate would make Iowa a more attractive place for businesses and employees, and those who said the plan benefits the wealthy while doing little to help lower-income workers.

Gov. Tom Wolf shared his final budget proposal on Tuesday, with a focus on taking advantage of a $2 billion to $3 billion surplus to invest in public education, a pillar of his 2013 campaign. In the budget address to a joint House and Senate session, Wolf spoke about progress made in his two terms as Pennsylvania governor. ...

Maryland lawmakers and firefighters are pushing legislation to lower the risks of exposure to PFAS, a class of toxic chemicals found in many products, including fire-retardant foams. The George "Walter" Taylor Act would limit the sale of firefighting foam, rugs and food packaging that contain PFAS - chemicals that have been linked to non-Hodgkins lymphoma and other cancers. Christine Taylors husband is the bills namesake, a firefighter for 31 years before dying of metastatic n...