Althea Cole

I’m bothered by the outcry from teachers. It makes me wonder what their classroom instruction involved in the first place.

“Infrastructure” is a beguiling word. It deceives us into giving politicians the OK to spend gobs of money on the promise of things like new roads and better bridges.

Incentives work. They are perhaps the most robust driver of human behavior.

In a “post-truth” era, anyone with strong opinions can find an echo chamber of information

Sand, with his deer hunting bow in one hand and a slice of breakfast pizza in the other, has built an audience — but his latest act of self-promotion seems to have backfired

Early last June, I committed an atrocity. My crime: Offending a white woman by clicking “like” on a Facebook post …

Charter schools aren’t subject to less accountability than traditional public schools. They’re subject to more.

Retailers could have their licenses revoked by the state if they are unable to afford the cost of complying

There are no strings attached for an independent contractor. As a person with a chronic condition whose health prevents me …

To the editor: In an April 12 guest column ‘Should we raise minimum wage?”, Hawkeye Labor Council Executive Director Rick …

To the editor: During the 2014 campaign season, I spent hundreds of hours at the Republican Victory Office in Linn …