Iowa Archives

BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Iowa governor sides with anti-vaxxers, not cancer experts

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March 6, 2023

Iowa’s leading cancer researchers released sobering numbers last week. Data from the Iowa Cancer Registry indicates that Iowa has “the second-highest overall cancer incidence of all U.S. states” and is “the only state with a significant increase in cancer incidence from 2015 to 2019.” In addition, Iowa ranks first for “rates of new cases of oral cavity and pharyngeal […]

BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Where things stand with bills targeting Iowans on public assistance

By LAURA BELIN Bleeding Heartland

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Statehouses

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March 6, 2023

BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Walgreens assures Iowa AG it won’t dispense abortion medication here

By LAURA BELIN Bleeding Heartland

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Statehouses

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March 6, 2023

BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Iowa Republicans didn’t always push anti-LGBTQ bills. What changed?

By LAURA BELIN Bleeding Heartland

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Statehouses

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March 1, 2023

Four Midwestern states could soon decriminalize magic mushrooms

By Kate Lý Johnston

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Statehouses

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February 27, 2023

Lawmakers in four Midwestern states are introducing legislation this year to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms, or magic mushrooms, which has become increasingly embraced as a breakthrough psychiatric treatment amid a growing U.S. mental health crisis.