Tag: Iowa

Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield announced that it would not be participating in Obamacare's Iowa exchange next year, citing $90 million in losses during the last three years. (Tony Webster/Flickr)

Wellmark to pull out of Iowa Obamacare exchange

Kimberly Leonard · April 4, 2017 1:54 pm

Grassley argued that the dossier was a product of "blatant political and financial motives." (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Grassley demands answers from firm that produced Trump ‘dossier’

Susan Crabtree · March 27, 2017 3:53 pm

Republicans must not allow this sort of thinking to taint their commitment to a Constitution. (AP Photo by Justin Hayworth)

Beltway Confidential

Steve King ingests the poison of nationalist ideology

David Freddoso · March 13, 2017 5:13 pm

It started in 2011 when Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., and the state legislature enacted Act 10, the Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill, in the face of 100,000 angry protesters at the state capitol. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Beltway Confidential

Why 2017 is shaping up to be a banner year for labor reform

Akash Chougule · February 18, 2017 8:00 pm

Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin's labor reforms drew protests a few years ago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Protests as Iowa considers its own ‘Scott Walker bill’

David Freddoso · February 13, 2017 6:48 pm

Grain storage bins on a rural highway in Ottumwa, Iowa. Ottumwa has about 1,000 unemployed people — those seeking work, but out of a job. That's an unemployment rate of about 8.5 percent, nearly double the national average. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Beltway Confidential

Will refugees displace native workers?

Timothy P. Carney · February 3, 2017 3:18 pm

Former Democratic Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley was in Iowa this weekend raising money for the state party. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Beltway Confidential

Martin O’Malley hasn’t given up on the presidency

David Freddoso · January 30, 2017 7:19 pm

If Iowa follows the path of Missouri, from swing-state to Republican powerhouse, it will change the way we view the electoral map in 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Beltway Confidential

Graph: Iowa’s Republican Party is on the rise

David Freddoso · January 4, 2017 8:20 pm

Coalition points out that the EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard has been a huge job creator in the Midwest. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Energy and Environment

Ethanol industry calls Trump an ‘advocate’

John Siciliano · December 15, 2016 7:17 pm

"We want the next generation of innovation and production to happen right here in America and right here in Iowa," said President-elect Trump in Des Moines.

Energy and Environment

Trump promises to ‘prime the pump’

Sarah Bedford · December 9, 2016 2:11 am

Branstad's lieutenant governor, Kim Reynolds, will become Iowa's new governor. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Beltway Confidential

Republicans will now have three female governors; Democrats two

David Freddoso · December 7, 2016 6:25 pm

Report: Iowa Governor to be Trump’s China Ambassador

Tws Staff · December 7, 2016 12:16 pm