Often, a state accepting federal dollars does so with strings attached. Unfortunately, old habits die hard. Even when federal law changes and the strings are severed, programs created by those laws have a pesky habit of sticking around and are rarely repealed by state lawmakers. Frequently, this comes at a greater cost to consumers, taxpayers, or both.
By Victoria Sinclair, Guest Columnist A nation simply cannot tax and spend its way to prosperity. Federal legislators and the President must stop fueling the flames and exercise spending restraint. It is imperative that federal legislators and the President take the issue of the federal deficit seriously and act now. Generations of American politicians have more or less ignored the […]
The microschools that have sprouted in recent years, and the new ones that are now appearing, span a wide variety of educational philosophies and approaches, from structured “classical” models to unstructured “unschooling” models, and everything in between. Iowa lawmakers are poised to debate additional school choice legislation this year. If passed, parents will be given even more flexibility on how state […]
The midterm elections are over, so now the question is: Who will be the Democratic and Republican nominees for President in 2024? Americans will sort that out over the next 18 months. Assuming Joe Biden either declines to run again or is challenged in his own party, two sets of major-party candidates will work in the states to win their party’s nomination. The state-by-state nature of the contest is thanks to the Electoral College, even though the party nominating processes are different from the presidential election process.
Rolling blackouts may be coming to the Upper Midwest—including Iowa— this summer, according to an analysis from the North American Reliability Council (NERC), a nonprofit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid.