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Indianola City Council's choice to fund the downtown Square streetscape project is being challenged by hundreds of Indianola residents with the help of a Des Moines-area legal group. Alan Ostergren, the president and chief counsel of the Kirkwood Institute, announced in a news release Monday that 250 Indianola residents had signed a petition to ask the state to overrule an Indianola City Council decision, made on April 19, to fund the city's streetscape project with local option sales tax funds. In the release, Ostergren said Iowa law allows for residents to challenge the city council’s ac...

Hundreds of residents have petitioned the state to review a city council decision to fund a streetscape project using the local option sales tax.

The congressional committee tasked with adjudicating Iowa’s still-unsettled 2nd District election is giving both campaigns until March 29 to file written responses to a series of questions intended to govern its next steps. Committee Chair U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., postponed a vote on Miller-Meeks’ motion to dismiss Hart's election challenge last week. And she has directed lawyers representing each campaign to answer written questions laying out their cases before the end of the month.  “Both parties' views will help inform how this committee can best render its quote independe...

By Jeff Angelo Mar 15, 2021 Attorney Alan Ostergren joins Jeff as a Congressional committee makes another move toward possibly unseating Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks and replacing her with her opponent, Rita Hart; Jeff updates listeners on his visit with his mom in assisted living and the status of Iowan's stimulus payments; Representative Randy Feenstra reports an attack on Iowa labor laws; Brent Willett of the Iowa Health Care Association answers listener questions about visits to long-term care facilities and nursing homes. Click to hear hour one of Need To Know With Jeff Angel...

Emily Blobaum/Iowa PBS The U.S. Committee on House Administration voted Wednesday to review the merits of Democrat Rita Hart’s challenge of the outcome in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District before deciding whether to dismiss it. Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who was provisionally seated to represent the southeast Iowa district in January, has asked the House to toss out Hart’s case challenging her six-vote margin in the race. It was the closest federal race in the country during the 2020 cycle and among the closest congressional races in American history,...