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While some first-time Iowa voters say they are well-informed about the 2018 gubernatorial race of Republican incumbent Kim Reynolds, Democrat Fred Hubbell and Libertarian Jake Porter, others getting ready to vote for the first time said they still were doing research.
Republicans, armed with firm control of the House, Senate and governor’s office, came to the Statehouse in January with several bills that Democrats could block when they controlled the Senate in the last legislative session.
Controversy about speech limits on college campuses in Iowa drew the most attention of all the IowaWatch stories written in 2016. Here is a look at our most-read stories of the year.
Gov. Terry Branstad said in an IowaWatch interview he can’t commit support to an effort to extend personhood rights to fetuses at this early stage.
The number of abortions performed in Iowa has been dropping despite access to abortion services within close to a two-hour drive for most Iowans and through telemedicine.
An Iowa state senator said he wants the Iowa Legislature to define life as beginning at conception following a June 27 U.S. Supreme Court decision that limits how much states can restrict abortion access. But the constitutionality of any legislation along those lines would be contrary to previous Supreme Court decisions, an Iowa legal expert says.
IowaWatch staff writer Dana Davidsen takes an inside look into caucus candidate Mitt Romney.