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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Iowa local governments and law enforcement agencies would face a $50,000 fine if they enforce federal gun regulations under a bill advancing in the state Senate. -
A key state lawmaker is proposing four new policies aimed at increasing the capacity of Iowa’s mental health system to care for people with severe mental illness.
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A panel of Iowa state representatives advanced the first pair of bills to come out of the governor’s child care task force Wednesday.
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Reynolds calls for flat tax, unemployment cuts, school choice in 2022 Condition of the State AddressIowa Gov. Kim Reynolds called for a flat income tax, cuts to unemployment benefits, and state-funded scholarships for students to transfer to private schools in her Condition of the State speech Tuesday evening.
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A key Iowa lawmaker says he wants to require carbon pipeline companies to get support from a large majority of landowners in the pipeline’s path before asking state regulators for eminent domain.
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Iowa's 2022 legislative session begins with speeches about taxes, workforce, and a 'sinister agenda'Iowa’s 2022 legislative session began Monday with speeches from state Republican and Democratic leaders, who set out their goals for the next few months.
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Iowa’s labor commissioner says the state won’t enforce the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for workplaces with 100 or more employees, regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on the matter.
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Iowa’s 2022 legislative session begins Monday. That’s when 150 elected officials from across the state will gather at the Statehouse in Des Moines for a few months to enact new state laws and decide how to spend the money Iowans pay in taxes.
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Democrats in the Iowa Senate are proposing a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana, and they released the text of the amendment Wednesday.
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Two Republican lawmakers released a proposal Tuesday that would ban Iowa businesses from hiring or firing workers, requiring masks or testing, and denying services to customers based on a person’s vaccination status. But Republican leaders said they want to wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandates.
