The governor’s call to raise state taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products and impose a new 15% sales tax on vaping products and consumable hemp products has narrowly failed in a Senate Committee. Republican Senator Kara Warme of Ames, chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, started the discussion by echoing the governor’s […]
Iowa sees thousands of people lose SNAP benefits
Nearly 25,000 fewer Iowans are enrolled in a federal food assistance program than before the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill became
