Gov. Kim Reynolds won a hotly contested race against Democrat Fred Hubbell in Tuesday’s general election. It was the first gubernatorial victory for the incumbent, who became governor in 2017 when Terry Branstad was appointed ambassador to China. Hubbell won five of the state’s six most populous counties, losing only Woodbury County in western Iowa. […]
Gov. Kim Reynolds
Posted inCommunity/News
Grassley gives Steve King a fresh endorsement, as King concludes his campaign with homophobic remarks
Sen. Chuck Grassley issued a new statement endorsing fellow Republican Steve King, following a week when King’s white nationalist ties and rhetoric finally caused the National Republican Congressional Campaign (NRCC) to denounce the eight-term Iowa congressman and drop its support for his reelection bid. Grassley never mentions the actions and statements that led the NRCC […]
Posted inCommunity/News
As Iowa’s first medical marijuana production facility opens, severe restrictions remain on the program
Iowa’s still developing medical marijuana program reached an important milestone on Thursday, as MedPharm Iowa held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its Des Moines facility. “It’s about the patients, the kids, the patients who are going to benefit from these particular products,” Dr. Christopher Nelson, MedPharm’s owner, said at the ribbon-cutting.
Posted inCommunity/News
Reynolds keeps Steve King as campaign co-chair, even as national Republicans drop him because of white nationalist statements
Kim Reynolds’ continued embrace of Steve King has become an issue in the governor’s race one week before the general election. On Tuesday, Rep. Steve Stivers the head of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) condemned the eight-term Iowa congressman’s “recent comments, actions, and retweets.” The Ohio Republican tweeted, “We must stand up against white […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: I wanted to vote for Kim Reynolds. Then she misled Iowans.
When Kim Reynolds became the first woman governor of Iowa, I remembered that when I had run as a Republican candidate for state treasurer in 1998, some Republicans were admittedly unwilling to vote for a woman.
Posted inCommunity/News
Notes on Kim Reynolds’ nine-minute ‘rally’ at Hamburg Inn
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ first campaign rally in Iowa City was scheduled to last an hour. It didn’t. Only nine minutes ticked by between the time she stepped into Hamburg Inn No. 2 on Linn Street and when she walked out the door at 12:04 p.m. A lot of people said online they would show up to protest. They didn’t. About half a dozen dedicated people milled about in protest outside Hamburg. Inside there was one woman with a protest sign about the size of ping-pong paddle.
Posted inCommunity/News
Gov. Kim Reynolds to visit Hamburg Inn on Thursday
Gov. Kim Reynolds is coming to Iowa City on Thursday for a public event at Hamburg Inn No. 2 on Linn Street. The governor will holding her KIM (Keep Iowa Moving) rally at noon, as part of a swing through eastern Iowa, starting that morning in Cedar Falls and ending in Keokuk. Although this is […]
Posted inCommunity/News
Reynolds and Hubbell discuss Mollie Tibbetts, labor rights, Me Too and climate change in third debate
The third debate between Gov. Kim Reynolds and Democrat Fred Hubbell was held at a time guaranteed to limit viewership, 8 a.m. on Sunday. That was unfortunate, because it was the most informative of the three debates. During the first two, the questions…
Posted inCommunity/News
Hubbell and Reynolds address unemployment, abortion rights in second debate
At the very beginning of Wednesday night’s debate between Gov. Kim Reynolds and Democratic Fred Hubbell at Morningside College in Sioux City there was a small but telling moment. Reynolds started her opening remarks by thanking Morningside for hosting the debate, then added, “Go Mustangs, number one in the country.”
Posted inCommunity/News
Ernst: Democrats who voted against Kavanaugh were ‘reprehensible’
Sen. Joni Ernst called North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp’s vote against the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court “reprehensible,” during an interview last week on North Dakota television.
Posted inCommunity/News
Reynolds and Hubbell meet in Ankeny for the first of three debates
Gov. Kim Reynolds and Democrat Fred Hubbell took the stage at the Ankeny campus of the Des Moines Area Community College on Wednesday night for what was billed as the first debate of the candidates for governor in the November election. But the hour-long event, sponsored by the Des Moines Register and television station KCCI, didn’t include all the candidates — Libertarian Jake Porter was excluded — and the two on stage didn’t actually debate.
Posted inCommunity/News
Iowa reaches ‘peak pig,’ as Trump’s policies damage the pork industry and the pork industry damages the environment
Iowa hit “peak pig” last month, according to figures just published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The state had 23.6 million pigs, an increase of 4 percent from 2017 and most ever recorded in any state. There are only 9.4 million pigs in North Carolina, the state that ranks second in swine.
