The farm bill is a critical piece of legislation for Iowa and the entire country. It provides a framework from …
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The farm bill is a critical piece of legislation for Iowa and the entire country. It provides a framework from …
The attack on higher education funding by the governor and legislative leadership have gone too far for at least one …
Almost daily we see news reports about the effects of human-caused climate change: unprecedented and increasingly intense fires, drought and …
Nothing feels natural about a natural disaster. Even in a community as accustomed to change as Iowa City, the scope …
For the past ten years, Matthew 25 has very intentionally positioned ourselves in places of pain and loss in the …
Like so many people, as spring 2008 unfolded, I could not have anticipated the changes to my life and career …
Yes, it has been a decade and, yes, it just seems like yesterday. June marks the 10-year anniversary of the …
The whims of Mother Nature tested Cedar Rapids 10 summers ago when the river banks overflowed, flooding 10 square miles …
Cedar Rapids is my family’s hometown. My mother and father grew up there, and they graduated from Roosevelt and Franklin …
Disasters are personal. Each person affected grieves and remembers their own reality of June 13, 2008. On the day of …
A couple of hours from where I live my favorite advertising sign sits in front of a farmhouse along a …
There’s an old saying that goes: ‘to retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the …
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