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Christopher Rants, who served as a Republican state representative from Sioux City for 16  years, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court, claiming the bureau's employees had violated the Freedom of Information Act by failing to turn over requested documents. Rants asked for copies of communications among Census employees on June 3 but has not received the documents. Rants told the Des Moines Register in an email that he requested the records and filed the lawsuit because he shares concerns "expressed by many researchers" in a May 27 Associated Press article about proposed changes at the C...

Ex-Iowa House speaker sues Census Bureau, saying it won't turn over communications about 'synthetic data' Tyler Jett, Des Moines Register VIDEO: Reapportionment of U.S. House seats explained Replay Video UP NEXT An Iowa lobbyist and former state House Speaker sued the U.S. Census Bureau this week, demanding documents showing how the agency might change its data reporting. Christopher Rants, who served as a Republican state representative from Sioux City for 16 years, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court, claiming the bureau's employees had violated the Freedom of Informa...

DES MOINES - Legislative Republicans on Monday advanced separate funding bills they say will meet the needs of K-12 schools next fiscal year. But critics slammed the proposals as inadequate, cruel and vengeful in trying to punish the Des Moines public schools in particular for failing to immediately comply with Gov. Kim Reynolds' push for in-person classroom instruction against the backdrop of a pandemic.

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

A bill that is currently under discussion by the Iowa state Legislature would allow a type of vehicle, which employs automated driving technology, to deliver packages to customers who opt-in to the service.