Writing at the Florida Politics blog, AG Gancarski reports on three sales-tax "holiday" bills working their way through the state's legislature. Two of the bills would lengthen existing holidays on school supplies and storm-preparedness products. The third would expand the holiday habit to hunting and fishing items. According to the Sales Tax Institute, at least 16 states have sales-tax holidays scheduled this year on goods ranging from clothing to school supplies to generators to guns.

DES MOINES– Governor Kim Reynolds and Lieutenant Governor Adam Gregg released their public schedules for the week of Monday, March 2, 2020-Sunday, March 8, 2020. 

The following events are open to credentialed members of the media:

Monday, March 2, 2020

Gov Reynolds attends Iowa Rally for Life

Iowa State Capitol

Rotunda

Des Moines, IA 

12PM

Tuesday, March 3, 2020

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (February 28, 2020) — The Black Box Theatre presents Jeffrey Hatcher’s Turn of the Screw March 26 through April 5.  Based on the Henry James book, it is a tale of suspense, horror, and repressed sexuality. A governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently-orphaned children. However, she is not their first governess.

WASHINGTON DC (February 28, 2020) — US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Bette Brand will serve as the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Development (RD) Deputy Under Secretary following the retirement of Donald “DJ” LaVoy.