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When I was a new dad and a graduate student at the University of Northern Iowa, I was at a breaking point. After losing my brother it was a struggle to support a young family at home, be there for my parents and at times choose between gas in my truck and diapers for my daughter. With a few professors that kept checking in on me, and the support of my family and community, I made it through. I ran for office to give back to all those in my community who had given me so much.

For her work on The 1619 Project, Iowa native Nikole Hannah-Jones, who initiated it, received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

Kim Reynolds says she hopes her criminal justice bill will bring people together but critics abound Stephen Gruber-Miller and Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register Gov. Reynolds will introduce a bill to protect law enforcement and ban racial profiling Replay Video UP NEXT The Republican governor's follow-up proposal, released on Tuesday, is not receiving that universal acclaim. Republicans are enthusiastic about parts of the bill, including increased penalties for assaulting police officers and cutting off state funding for cities that cut their police budgets. Meanwhile, some ...

DES MOINES - Gov. Kim Reynolds' proposal to create scholarships for private school tuition would cost the state's 300-plus public school districts $2.1 million, a fraction of the more than $3 billion the state devotes each year to K-12 public education, according to a nonpartisan state analysis.

DES MOINES — If approved, Gov. Kim Reynolds’ proposal to create taxpayer-funded scholarships toward private school tuition for public school students in struggling K-12 schools would cost the state’s 300-plus public school districts a total of $2.1 million, a tiny fraction of the more than $3 billion the state devotes annually to K-12 public education, according to a nonpartisan state analysis. Critics of the proposal and public school advocates have warned the governor’s proposal amounts to a defunding of public schools; they caution the negative impact could be gre...