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On a recent cold morning I was awakened by the raspy calls of dozens of jet-black American crows, once again …
Note: This is an excerpt from Gov. Kim Reynolds’ Condition of the State address on Jan. 10. We invited the …
At age 10, I found myself volunteering at an anti-abortion center after my mom signed me up as part of …
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed in writing letters. Dr. King wrote frequently, including the famous Letter from Birmingham Jail …
When the Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field of Paycor Stadium this month, a team trainer quickly began …
The Legislature wrote Iowa’s public records law 55 years ago, and one of the tenets of the statute was the …
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