Workers' compensation reform eyed in Iowa column
Michael Trier argues proposed bills would lower premiums by cutting benefits for injured workers and warn against a race to the bottom. He notes Iowa's premiums have been stable and that balance should guide policy, with caution about shifting costs to taxpayers and businesses. Trier's background as former workers' compensation commissioner is noted.
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Iowa
Mike Ralston
Iowa Association of Business and Industry
Oregon
Ralston
Michael Trier
Community Letters Debate Left Loss and Clean Water
Readers discuss political defeat, calls for accountability, and skepticism of government actions. Debates touch on Trump, Nixon, immigration rulings, and labor laws. Letters also urge preserving clean water, questioning EPA funding, and weighing casino expansion in Iowa and South Dakota.
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Kubler-Ross
Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton
Boris
Natasha
Trump
Congress
Richard Nixon
Poison to Obamacare Like Arsenic in Victorian Mystery
FORA HARROP argues the Republican House health plan acts as a slow toxin to Obamacare. It maintains Medicaid expansion until 2020, then cuts subsidies and tax credits, ends the individual mandate, imposes surcharges, and shifts subsidies by age, risking healthier people leaving and sicker ones joining. Trump endorses it, but the bill faces strong GOP and Democrat opposition and likely defeat.
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Chadron
Neb
Olds
Donald Trump
House
Iowa voter ID debate and straight-ticket voting reform
Adam Sullivan argues the Iowa Senate will consider House File 516 to require voter ID at polling places while lawmakers debate many reforms. He favors eliminating straight-ticket voting to reduce party bias and improve election fairness, noting both parties influence voting ease and disenfranchisement risks.
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Paul Pate
Iowa
Mary Mascher
Iowa City
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