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Posts by Mike Owen

Posted on January 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM by Mike Owen

It has now been 16 years since Iowa last signaled that our state values work in one of the most...

Posted on October 13, 2023 at 12:47 PM by Mike Owen

Iowa’s Revenue Estimating Conference confirmed Thursday what we’ve known for many months: Tax cuts reduce state revenue. And that means...

Categories: Budget & taxes

Posted on July 26, 2023 at 5:40 PM by Mike Owen

Riders on RAGBRAI, the annual statewide bicycle ride across Iowa sponsored by The Des Moines Register, are peddling on a...

Posted on April 3, 2023 at 8:27 PM by Mike Owen

SNAP and Medicaid not only boost low-income families with federal funds, but local and state economies as well. That's one...

Categories: Food security, Health

Tagged As: CHIP, Hawki, Medicaid, SNAP

Posted on March 3, 2023 at 12:02 PM by Mike Owen

The road is closed, the bridge is out, and tax-cut-obsessed legislators are stepping on the gas. Already, Iowans started the...

Posted on February 17, 2023 at 8:08 PM by Mike Owen

We started putting a spotlight on Iowa’s most lucrative business tax credit over 15 years ago. Big, profitable companies were...

Posted on February 9, 2023 at 12:01 PM by Mike Owen

A new proposal in the Iowa Legislature turns Iowa priorities and values upside down. At a time we are doing...

Posted on November 9, 2022 at 12:27 PM by Mike Owen

Even before the polls closed yesterday, we already knew the big challenges facing our state. They are real and they...

Posted on October 12, 2022 at 5:07 PM by Mike Owen

It was good to hear level-headed law enforcement perspectives this week about the Reckless Gun Amendment, Public Measure 1, which...

Posted on June 11, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Mike Owen

Actor Jeff Bridges was on CBS "Sunday Morning" program June 5, talking about his battle with cancer and COVID, the...
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