On October 7 the Cedar Rapids Public Library hosted the first Linn County Learning Series event, which reviewed the local …
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Kasper Kittredge, Ashley Balius, and Phoebe Trepp Guest Columnists Oct. 21, 2019 7:00 am2207d ago
On October 7 the Cedar Rapids Public Library hosted the first Linn County Learning Series event, which reviewed the local …
John and Terri Hale Guest Columnists Oct. 21, 2019 6:00 am2207d ago
It’s not right. It costs Iowa taxpayers and consumers more, and it produces results they don’t want. What is it? …
Wendy Johnson and Ann Franzenburg
Guest Columnists Oct. 19, 2019 6:00 am2209d ago
Recently, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue made the comment, ‘In America, the big get bigger and the small go …
Timothy Walch, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Oct. 18, 2019 12:13 pm2210d ago
‘The Written Word Endures” – that’s the motto of the National Archives in Washington DC. Those words came to mind …
Sally Pederson, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Oct. 16, 2019 8:57 am2212d ago
Governing demands vision: big ideas and the ability to rally people around them. It also takes a plan: a method …
U.S. Reps. Abby Finkenauer and Peter DeFazio, guest columnists
Guest Columnists Oct. 12, 2019 7:00 am2216d ago
Regardless of your political ideology, we can all agree that America’s infrastructure network is essential to our quality of life …
Carroll McKibbin, guest columnist Guest Columnists Oct. 11, 2019 7:00 am2217d ago
I dreaded the task as a high school senior of memorizing dialogue from Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar.” I struggled in Mrs. …
John Hendrickson and Laura Ebke, guest columnists Guest Columnists Oct. 10, 2019 3:46 pm2218d ago
Iowa’s policymakers and business leaders agree: the state’s economy needs more skilled workers. One area of regulatory reform state leaders …
Miriam Kashia, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Oct. 9, 2019 9:17 am2219d ago
Three thousand Iowans showed up in downtown Iowa City on Friday and cheered wildly as 16 year-old Greta Thunberg of …
Alex Taylor, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Oct. 7, 2019 6:00 am2221d ago
My friend Lewis and his spouse juggle growing careers while raising two kids and finding time to care for his …
Warren Fisk, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Oct. 7, 2019 6:00 am2221d ago
Railroads are not new to Iowa. They arrived in the mid-nineteenth century, decades before the end of the Civil War, …
Matt and Kim Brenneman, guest columnists
Guest Columnists Oct. 6, 2019 7:00 am2222d ago
Land is a tangible gift for your legacy. It is said that throughout history there are three indicators of wealth: …
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