Iowa is now among six Republican-led states suing the Biden administration to try to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, accusing it of overstepping its executive powers. Governor Kim Reynolds made the announcement this afternoon.
In the lawsuit, being filed Thursday in a federal court in Missouri, the Republican states argue that Biden's cancellation plan is not "remotely tailored" to address the pandemic's effect on federal student loan borrowers.
It’s at least the second legal challenge this week to the sweeping proposal laid out by President Joe Biden in late August, when he said his administration would cancel up to $20,000 in education debt for huge numbers of borrowers.
Two Siouxland school districts have been outed by the ACLU for their dress code policies, receiving D’s and F’s across five categories.
South Sioux City Community Schools and Norfolk Public Schools are among the 15 school districts mentioned in their report citing the policies, “needed significant improvement.”
The report card compared the policies of the school districts with best practices in school dress code policies. According to the ACLU website, "Gendered enforcement of dress codes can subject girls to humiliation and anxiety, force them to miss class time and damage their sense of belonging in school. Black girls in particular face this discrimination more than others.”
The five categories measured included: bans on certain kinds of tops, shorts, skirts and dress length requirements, clarity of dress code policies, handling violations, and comments on bodies.
A Woodbury County judge will hear a dispute between Navigator CO2 Ventures and landowners Friday. Vicki and William Hulse are at the heart of a lawsuit brought by the company planning to build a carbon capture and sequestration pipeline across much of Iowa. The company accuses the couple of violating state law by not allowing its agents to survey their land. Navigator has filed a request for an injunction against the Moville landowners.
But, the Hulses’ have filed a countersuit, claiming the private company doesn’t have a constitutional right to survey their land. The Hulses’ say the did turn away land agents twice, but add that they did not receive proper notification from Navigator. The company has filed similar lawsuits in Clay and Butler counties.
A public hearing will be held by the Sioux City Transit System in the conference room located at 509 Nebraska Street, Sioux City, Iowa at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 19, 2022.
The purpose of this hearing is to consider proposed adjustments to the Sioux City Transit System services. These adjustments include route changes and service expansion.
The Iowa State Patrol says it is putting additional troopers on the road over the next several days to slow down speeders. The Iowa State Patrol says a high-speed July crash in which three Dubuque teenagers were killed sparked the enforcement project.
Excessive speeding and reckless driving have plagued Iowa since traffic dropped at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. State Patrol troopers are still seeing an unusually high number of drivers traveling over 100 mph, the Iowa State Patrol’s top official said Wednesday morning.