By: Ed Failor, Jr., President of Iowans for Tax Relief
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
While the economy continues to struggle, state lawmakers have a rare and valuable opportunity for major change and reform within state government. Governor Culver and Iowa Legislators must not pass up this [...]
Iowa taxpayers, along with local and state governments, are facing the perfect storm of lack of business development, an escalating tax burden, and a school funding crisis brought on by years of neglect and bad fiscal discipline in Terrace Hill. Where do those three storm [...]
Former Gov. Terry Branstad named former state Rep. Carmine Boal state chairwoman today, the Republican exploring a 2010 campaign announced.
Boal, an Ankeny Republican, served in the Iowa House from 1999 to 2007, and was ranking member of the state government committee.
Her role with Branstad will be to organize the state’s [...]
Gov. Chet Culver has said he did not know about problems with the Iowa Film Office’s tax credits program until mid-September.
But e-mails obtained under Iowa’s public records law show his staff and other top officials in state government received an urgent letter about “irresponsible spending” in early August.
“It is critical [...]
