Katarina Sostaric
State Government ReporterKatarina Sostaric is the State Government Reporter for Iowa Public Radio.
She previously covered Eastern Iowa for IPR from Iowa City. Before coming to Iowa, Katarina was a reporter and host at a public radio station in Southeast Alaska, where her work also aired on Alaska’s statewide public radio network.
Katarina worked as a Morning Edition news anchor and general assignment reporter at KBIA in Columbia while she was a student at the Missouri School of Journalism.
You can contact Katarina at ksostaric@iowapublicradio.org.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds is calling on Congress to provide more financial relief for families and businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, but she is not asking state lawmakers to use Iowa’s budget surplus and emergency funds to provide assistance. -
Allegations surfaced in a lawsuit this week that Tyson pork plant managers in Waterloo were betting on how many workers would get sick from COVID-19. Now, a local lawmaker is renewing his call for the governor to provide more information about her response to the meatpacking plant outbreak that infected more than 1,000 workers last spring, many of whom are immigrants and refugees.
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The number of active COVID-19 outbreaks in Iowa nursing homes soared to a record 114 Thursday, putting thousands of vulnerable Iowans at risk of getting sick or dying of the virus. The extremely high rate of community spread in Iowa is making it very difficult to protect Iowans who live in nursing homes.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced a new partial mask requirement Monday evening and put some restrictions on gatherings and businesses to slow the spread of coronavirus in the state. But there are numerous exceptions to the new mitigation measures being implemented as hospitals are already struggling to care for a surge in patients with severe cases of COVID-19.
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Democrats in the Iowa Senate have elected Sen. Zach Wahls, D-Coralville, to serve as the new Senate Minority Leader. Sen. Janet Petersen stepped down from the position last week.
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Iowa’s top election official has ordered a county-wide machine recount of votes in Lucas County after the results for one precinct were left out of election night totals. With the nearly 300 votes included in the unofficial results, Republican candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks pulled ahead in the extremely close race for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District.
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Republicans in the Iowa Senate voted Friday to select Sen. Jake Chapman, R-Adel, as the new Senate president and to keep Sen. Jack Whitver, R-Ankeny, as the Senate majority leader.
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In response to Iowa’s surging coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, Gov. Kim Reynolds said Thursday she will launch a public awareness campaign urging Iowans to take public health precautions. She did not announce new mitigation measures to slow the spread of the virus.
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Republicans appear to have kept control of the Iowa House of Representatives after Democrats thought this was their year to flip the chamber and break the GOP’s hold on the Iowa Capitol.
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Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Polling places are open across Iowa from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., and voters in line by 9 p.m. can vote.
