Latest Stories By Liam Halawith

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Kim Reynolds annual speech

Checking claims in Iowa Gov. Reynolds’ sixth Condition of the State address

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds described the state as a “beacon for freedom and opportunity” in front of the joint session of the Iowa House and Senate on Jan. 10.  Reynolds was ready to tout the state’s successes in implementing low-income tax rates and getting children back in the classroom during the pandemic in her annual […]
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State spending, school funding, abortion: fact-checking Iowa’s gubernatorial debate

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds had reason to bring up Iowa’s budget surplus when she and her 2022 election opponent, Deidre DeJear, debated this week. After all, she could report accurately, as she did in a late September news release, that the state ended fiscal 2022 under her watch with a $1.91 billion surplus. Reynolds said in […]
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Grassley at debate

Fact-checking claims from Iowa’s Senate debate on abortion, inflation and the border

Chuck Grassley and Mike Franken tossed several barbs at each other in their lone televised debate for a U.S. Senate seat from Iowa. For example, there was the time Franken took Grassley to task, saying Grassley opposed anything that helped women. “This is a guy who’s made it his career to ban abortion, to support […]
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Iowa CD 2

The facts about Iowa’s 2nd District congressional candidates and abortion

Those who have followed the near 50-year aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade, a 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, know the ruling never settled the highly contentious topic of legal abortion. The 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe – Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – extended the arguing […]
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