About one year ago, I was entering the dreadful junior year in high school. I didn’t want to go sit …
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About one year ago, I was entering the dreadful junior year in high school. I didn’t want to go sit …
1000 Kids for Iowa began in July to help save and protect refugee children fleeing warlike conditions in Honduras, El …
I am a refugee full of compassion and determination for human rights. I was a child soldier from the African …
I was raised so similarly to the writer of ‘Is it a privilege to be white? Not quite” (Sept. 20, …
Iowa needs a reliable supply of electric power for now and for the future. Let’s take a realistic look at …
The video of Ray Rice pounding his fist into his fiancee’s face is cringe-worthy. But that was not the beginning …
In the classroom in downtown Dubuque, where shots are heard each week in a nearby neighborhood, a young mother talks …
Christine Grant winces a bit when tagged as an ‘icon” or ‘legend.” But the first women’s athletic director at the …
Sexually transmitted disease rates in Linn and Johnson counties are rising. I encourage parents and educators to consider evidence-based, comprehensive …
Twenty minutes. That is how long I spent trying to get my cable television to turn on. I call the …
More than once during my 21 years as a minister in Iowa, traveling over rolling hills and through seas of …
Moving to Cedar Rapids was a ‘by-default” choice in my life. I married this awesome guy who took a great …
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