2023 in Iowa
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The following is a list of events of the year 2023 in Iowa.
Incumbents
[edit]State government
[edit]Events
[edit]- May 2 – Iowa Rampage, a professional arena football team based in Council Bluffs announce they're discontinuing operations after a single game.[1]
- May 28 – An apartment building partially collapses in Davenport, killing three people.[2]
- June 28 – Smoke from the wildfires in Canada reaches several U.S states, including Iowa.[3]
- November 6 – Governor Kim Reynolds endorses Ron DeSantis for the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.[4]
- November 21 – Bob Vander Plaats leader of The Family Leader announces his endorsement of Florida governor Ron DeSantis for the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries.[5]
- December – A Statue of Baphomet display in the Iowa State Capitol is destroyed by Michael Cassidy, a 35-year-old candidate for the Mississippi House of Representatives and a Christian conservative from Lauderdale, Mississippi.[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Parsons, McKenzy (May 2, 2024). "Iowa's AFL team discontinues operations at start of their first season". KETV. Retrieved May 2, 2024.
- ^ "3 killed in Iowa building collapse; lawsuits say owner didn't warn residents of danger". AP News. June 6, 2023. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
- ^ "Air quality suffering in eastern Iowa from Canadian wildfire smoke". June 27, 2023.
- ^ "Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says Trump can't win in 2024 as she endorses Ron DeSantis". NBC News. November 6, 2023.
- ^ Hernández, Alec; Tablet, Alex (November 21, 2023). "Ron DeSantis secures endorsement from Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats". Des Moines, Iowa: NBC News. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
- ^ Zeisloft, Ben (December 14, 2023). "Exclusive: Christian tears down and beheads Satan shrine in Iowa Capitol". The Sentinel. Retrieved April 28, 2024.