(SBA/INA) As Chair of the Local Government Committee in the Iowa House, I am often asked: Where should decision-making power reside? I believe the answer lies in the principled balance that local …

(SBA/INA) - American democracy succeeds by trial and error. Our history is littered with flaws and mistakes, corrected and amended, re-broken, and fixed again, often thanks to citizen input. That is …

When your home state is repeatedly rated as one of the worst in the country for property tax burdens, something has to change. When you are consistently hearing from Iowans worried about property …

Property tax reform has been a pressing issue for years.  Iowans are facing higher costs on nearly every front and are desperate for relief. Property values have skyrocketed, and property …

(SBA) - Worried about surveillance, states enact privacy laws and restrict license plate readers. As part of its deportation efforts, the Trump administration has ordered states to hand over personal …

ONE STATE TO RULE THEM ALL Sometimes there will be a push for the state government to reduce the number of Iowa’s 99 counties. I’m not entirely opposed to that idea, within reason. We no …