Gophers must solve rushing woes to end Iowa’s dominance in rivalry

The Minnetonka native and All-Big Ten guard led the Gophers in scoring last season. Her absence leaves a significant void as the program looks to build on its Sweet 16 run.

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Iowa is expected to spend over $1 billion more than it raises in revenues in the current fiscal year, the Revenue Estimating Conference found Friday — but Iowa Department of Management Director Kraig Paulsen said this prediction remains in line with Republicans’ expectations about the initial impacts of income tax cuts. The Revenue Estimating Conference, a three-member panel, met Friday to discuss the state’s expected economic outlook. When the conference last met in March, the members projected state revenues would decline by 9.3% in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2026, but that the state would see a 4.4% increase in revenue growth in fiscal year 2027. With the books closed for FY 2026, Iowa saw a 7.1% decrease in revenue compared to the previous year — a drop of just under $635 million. Jennifer Acton, the director of the Fiscal Services division of the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency, said this figure means revenues for the year were $205 million higher than the REC projected.

Get Starting PointA guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter EmailDemocrats face a steep challenge in winning rural communities like this one in Chickasaw County, a onetime party stronghold that swung sharply to the right in the Trump era as a broader realignment swept through much of the agricultural Midwest. But by simply narrowing their losses with appeals to voters such as Roethler, Democrats hope to become newly competitive from Iowa and Kansas to Nebraska and Ohio. Josh Turek, the Democrat running for a U. S. Senate seat in Iowa, said his party has “looked at this math problem incorrectly.”“You’ve got to go out there in these rural counties and trim the margins,” he said in an interview. President Trump was at a campaign rally in Grand Island, Neb., on Oct. 5. DOUG MILLS/NYTCompetitive races in states that usually aren’tRepublicans know they are on defense in these states. Trump recently held a rally in Nebraska to boost U. S. Sen. Pete Ricketts and will do the same for U. S. Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas on Monday. Republicans are pumping money into both states before the Nov. 3 election.

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From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The William Penn School District on Monday afternoon reinstated a number of fall sports  following last week’s abrupt decision to suspend all middle and high school athletics in response to an unspecified incident involving an unnamed Penn Wood sports team.