Without safety net social programs, millions of Americans would have no affordable insurance or available health care
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Norman Sherman Opinion Sep. 13, 2021 4:00 am1609d ago
Without safety net social programs, millions of Americans would have no affordable insurance or available health care
Rebecca Kushner Opinion Sep. 10, 2021 3:25 pm1612d ago
Potential development threatens property values and quality of life in Iowa City’s Manville Heights neighborhood.
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst
Opinion Sep. 8, 2021 4:33 pm1614d ago
Women are playing a vital role in our nation’s economic recovery
Kathleen Woida
Opinion Sep. 9, 2021 12:33 pm1613d ago
Many Iowa farmers are improving their land through no-till farming, cover crops, rotational grazing
Kamel Aossey
Opinion Sep. 8, 2021 5:59 am1614d ago
Growing up in Iowa in the ’50s and ’60s and living in a progressive city like Cedar Rapids was educational, …
Patrick Snell
Opinion Sep. 7, 2021 6:00 am1615d ago
The way a solar panel works is completely safe and does not create any hazardous or toxic fumes. Quite simply, the only byproduct of solar is clean, affordable electricity.
Opinion Sep. 6, 2021 6:00 am1616d ago
This Labor Day is a reminder to the Iowa Democratic Party about the importance of returning to our roots of prairie populism.
Kurt Ullrich Opinion Sep. 4, 2021 12:00 pm1618d ago
It’s just an old pocket watch, one that rests easily on a table next to my favorite chair, a watch …
Roger Munns
Opinion Sep. 3, 2021 1:37 pm1619d ago
Forty years ago the Iowa Legislature rejected conventional politics and used a nonpartisan model to redistrict itself in a move that has become a national beacon for the one-person one-vote principle.
Dr. Scott Nau
Opinion Sep. 1, 2021 10:08 am1621d ago
I have been a pediatrician in Cedar Rapids for 40 years. Along with the aches and pains that inevitably come …
Guest column
Opinion Sep. 1, 2021 12:12 pm1621d ago
It isn’t too late for the Board of Supervisors to avoid being responsible for this costly piece of equipment and the harm it will do.
Gerene Denning
Opinion Aug. 31, 2021 6:00 am1622d ago
All school officials need to practice civil disobedience and test this immoral and dangerous law in court.
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