Highlights in this edition: 

• House Republicans Release Budget Plan
  • House Republicans continue to keep their word to paraeducators
• Iowa Ranks Fifth in the Nation, Landing the Midwest in Preschool Access for Four-Year-Olds
  • State spending totaled nearly $97,000,000, up 1 percent since last year 
• DNR Notes that Black Bear Sightings on the Rise in Northeast Iowa
  • Iowa has gone from having an occasional visiting bear, to more frequent visiting bears to now having two-to-four bears move in over winter
• Iowa is Finally Inheritance Tax Free
  • Senate File 619 passed back in 2021 phased out Iowa's inheritance tax at a rate of 20 percent each year until it was repealed totally this year

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