Iowa Press

On this edition of Iowa Press, Rep. Cindy Axne (D-West Des Moines) discusses the latest news out of Washington and look ahead to what she hopes to accomplish. 

Joining moderator David Yepsen at the Iowa Press table are Kay Henderson, news director for Radio Iowa, and Brianne Pfannenstiel, chief politics reporter for The Des Moines Register.

Program support provided by: Associated General Contractors of Iowa, Iowa Bankers Association and FUELIowa.

On this edition of Iowa Press, Rep. Pat Grassley (R-New Hartford), Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives, and Sen. Jack Whitver (R-Ankeny), Iowa Senate Majority Leader discuss their priorities and the Republicans' legislative agenda for the 2021 session. 

Joining moderator David Yepsen at the Iowa Press table are Kay Henderson, news director for Radio Iowa, and Erin Murphy, Des Moines bureau chief for Lee Enterprises.

Governor Kim Reynolds presents her Condition of the State address to the Iowa Legislature.

David Yepsen, host of Iowa PBS’s Iowa Press, and Kay Henderson, news director of Radio Iowa, anchor the live broadcast, analyze the governor’s priorities and preview the 89th General Assembly of the Iowa Legislature.

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Iowa's bottle bill was not an election year topic on the campaign trail. But it reaches more prominence during the coming Iowa legislative session. We dive into the issues surrounding Iowa's longtime bottle bill on this edition of Iowa Press.

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2020 was the year of global pandemic, racial unrest and an unprecedented presidential election. So what does 2021 have in store for us? We gather a reporters' roundtable to preview the political and legislative issues on the horizon on this edition of Iowa Press.

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From the Iowa Statehouse to Congress, Iowa's Fourth Congressional District will have new representation in January. We sit down with Congressman-elect Randy Feenstra on this edition of Iowa Press.

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On this edition of Iowa Press, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Marion), Congresswoman-elect for Iowa's 1st Congressional District, discusses her plans as a first-term Republican in the Democrat-controlled U.S. House in January. 

Joining moderator David Yepsen at the Iowa Press table are Kay Henderson, news director for Radio Iowa, and James Lynch, political writer for The Gazette.

Program support provided by: Associated General Contractors of Iowa, Iowa Bankers Association and FUELIowa.

On this edition of Iowa Press, Iowa Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, (R-Ottumwa), Congresswoman-elect for Iowa's 2nd District, discusses the recently certified general election results.

Joining moderator David Yepsen at the Iowa Press table are Kay Henderson, news director for Radio Iowa, and Caroline Cummings, political reporter for Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Program support provided by: Associated General Contractors of Iowa, Iowa Bankers Association and FUELIowa.

On this edition of Iowa Press, we convene a panel of Iowa's small-town journalists to discuss general issues of small town journalism in an era of tightening budgets, small staff, and a changing media landscape.

Joining moderator Kay Henderson at the Iowa Press table are Art Cullen, editor of the Storm Lake Times; Ty Rushing, managing editor of the N'West Iowa Review; Doug Burns, co-owner and columnist for the Carroll Times-Herald; and Bob Leonard, news director for KNIA/KLRS radio in Knoxville.

On this edition of Iowa Press, Dennis Goldford, professor of political science at Drake University, and Mike Mahaffey, former chair of the Republican Party of Iowa, discuss the 2020 election and look ahead to the next big political battles in Iowa.

Joining moderator David Yepsen at the Iowa Press table is Kay Henderson, news director for Radio Iowa.

Program support provided by: Associated General Contractors of Iowa, Iowa Bankers Association and FUELIowa.