Althea Cole

Some conservative and Republican organizations were beginning to wonder if Randy Feenstra, the U.S. congressman and candidate for Iowa governor, …

Gender identity was front and center at the Iowa Statehouse again this week as lawmakers advanced two bills to clean …

Last weekend St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids held a “legal observer training” to teach anti-ICE demonstrators to …

The eyes of the country are on Iowa’s neighbors to the north as tensions over immigration enforcement reached a fever …

Iowa Democrats’ direction for education: backward

If you’ve been saying in recent months or years that the Cedar Rapids Community School District has been spending too much money on fancy consultants, it might please you to know that the district has made – albeit tacitly at best – an admission.

For the next 100 days — longer if they can’t pass a budget in time — members of the state House and Senate will conduct our great state’s business of lawmaking.

The state was notified Dec. 19 that the USDA has approved Reynolds’ request to align allowable SUN Bucks purchases with Iowa’s new SNAP purchasing guidelines. Now able to set parameters for healthier purchases, the Big Kim Energy has jumped back on board with SUN Bucks — without yielding or folding on her original concerns.

One might wonder if Randy Feenstra actually intends to bypass the grassroots, planning instead to tiptoe his way to a 2026 gubernatorial primary win with paid ads and relative name recognition.The problem is, not enough people know Randy Feenstra’s name for him to win in November with that strategy.

Executive order could move U.S. closer to full legalization

CRCSD must look for savings in the face of a $10 million budget deficit

I caught word of a post a couple weeks ago on the social media site BlueSky in which a person …

No direct financial ties, but past associations raise questions

Superintendent is not leading Cedar Rapids schools to success

2025: The incumbent versus the oddball