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Capitol Notebook: Property tax fix signed into law
Rep. Austin Baeth, D-Des Moines, introduces Ukrainian refugees Alina Poznanska and her little ones, Milana and Eldar, to the Iowa House on Monday. Elena’s partner Artem is serving in the Ukrainian army. Elena, Milana and Eldar are becoming housed by a relatives in Newton. (Erin Murphy/Gazette Des Moines Bureau) DES MOINES — Iowa assets homeowners are off the hook for about $130 million in taxes they normally would have paid out below an faulty assessment formulation, but nearby governments are remaining keeping the bag underneath laws signed into regulation Monday by Gov. Kim Reynolds. Variations to residence tax regulation in 2013 and 2021 adjusted multiresidential qualities, like apartment complexes, to…
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7 Things That Would Fix Immigration in the U.S.
With the Republican Bash in such a chaotic point out as evidenced by the recent struggle more than who will be Speaker, and the surreal saga encompassing George Santos, it is challenging to predict how a Republican Congress will behave, and who will conclude up as their nominee for President. But as evidenced by the 1st “investigation” and hearings convened by the now Republican-managed Residence Judiciary Committee—chaired by bomb-thrower Rep. Jim Jordan—around President Biden’s dealing with of the Southern border, it is a absolutely sure detail that immigration will remain a single of their favored wedge difficulties. No matter whether the President addresses it or not at his Condition of…
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Chuck Grassley should back bipartisan immigration fix
Dick Hartvigsen is a lifelong Iowa resident residing in North Liberty. At a meeting numerous months back, I joined numerous Iowans contacting on Sen. Chuck Grassley to near an immigration loophole that forces around 250,000 young children of authorized immigrants to “self deport” following graduating college or university. A Roundtable event followed this meeting where various other Iowans referred to as on Congress to do the specific identical issue. There was unanimous consensus that this solution urgently desires fixing, and Grassley later on supplied assurance that a solution could move at the end of this calendar year if it has “bipartisan arrangement on it.” This sort of a resolution has…
