We say yes to too much or we get so busy we aren’t doing the right things anymore.
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We say yes to too much or we get so busy we aren’t doing the right things anymore.
Pressure legislators of all political stripes to work together to solve problems
Unless you want to be haunted by the ghosts of public schools present, past and future, it’s time to dramatically increase public school funding
Five years ago, the Dakota Access pipeline cut across 347 miles of Iowa farmland to transport over 20 million gallons …
A lingering, maybe permanent, poisoning of trust in government.
Torture hardly ever works. It merely forces a prisoner to say what the interrogator wants to hear so he will stop being tortured.
Iowa students are already exposed to a variety of obscene, savage and sexual material in and out of school.
During the holidays of 1947 children in France got a special gift from the people of the United States. Kids …
A young man wearing a green hoodie stood at a counter and as he blew into his crumpled fist he …
Encouraging individuals to selfishly and ignorantly reject a lifesaving vaccine is not an Iowa value.
With the delta variant of COVID-19 casting its long shadow across the country and the omicron mutation inching its way …
It would take about 550 hours to read all of Iowa’s administrative code — that’s almost 14 weeks of full-time work.
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