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While Democrats raised some concerns, the tone of Wednesdays meetings was muted compared to heated debates over election bills in previous years.

Election officials would have additional time to mail absentee ballots to voters under a bill that advanced Tuesday in the Iowa House of Representatives. This comes less than a year after Republican lawmakers voted to significantly cut the time allowed for voting by mail.

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A reckless policy: Local legislators react Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, touted the legislation as a means of putting parents in control and protecting Iowans rights to make their own health care decisions.  Sen. Herman Quirmbach, D-Ames, said the law is "a reckless policy driven by an extreme right-wing ideology that denies science." "What happens the next time a coronavirus-type pandemic comes along? (Schools and local governments) cant always wait for the state Legislature to enact...

DES MOINES — A House subcommittee has begun paving the way for autonomous delivery vehicles in Iowa neighborhoods.

bshea@messengernews.net Iowa lawmakers representing Webster County agree with Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposals for improving child care, broadband service and mental health treatment. Reacting to the governor’s Condition of the State Address, the legislators said Wednesday that they expect to get to work quickly on many of those proposals. The governor’s call to give parents an option to send their children to in-person classes for all their schooling is also likely to get attention soon, but...

Iowa senators and representatives will meet Monday for the start of the 2021 legislative session.  For Story and Boone counties representatives, education, broadband, natural resources and the continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic are at the top of their lists.  "COVID has changed the way that we do business, how we educate our children, how we receive health care, and it has exposed some of our vulnerabilities,” Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said last week. "So, I think this ...