In spring 2009 our community voted to tax itself to provide immediate, local funding to support our own to rebuild …
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Linda Seger, Elizabeth Schott, Mike Dawson and Gary Ficken Guest Columnists Jun. 26, 2014 1:00 am4157d ago
In spring 2009 our community voted to tax itself to provide immediate, local funding to support our own to rebuild …
Dr. Angela Stoehr Guest Columnists Jun. 25, 2014 2:50 pm4157d ago
Most mothers would say they want to do the best thing for their children. But when does that providing start? …
Patrick Muller
Guest Columnists Jun. 23, 2014 1:00 am4160d ago
At the Atlanta February TTI Vanguard Conference, ‘Embracing Blur,” Zipcar founder Robin Chase articulated a transformative model she called ‘peers …
Susan Heathcote
Guest Columnists Jun. 22, 2014 1:00 am4161d ago
From the small creeks, ponds and wetlands where our children play to the larger rivers and lakes where our families …
Craig Hill
Guest Columnists Jun. 22, 2014 1:00 am4161d ago
‘Things in our country run despite government, not by aid of it.” – Will Rogers. Time and time again, across …
Joe Sheller
Guest Columnists Jun. 21, 2014 1:00 am4162d ago
On June 28, 1914, as Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria toured the city of Sarajevo, members of a Serbian nationalist …
Katie Roche Guest Columnists Jun. 19, 2014 10:59 am4163d ago
Being an Iowan means that I when I worked as a voice-over actor in New York City they had my …
Dr. Ruth White Guest Columnists Jun. 18, 2014 1:00 am4165d ago
Quick! If I say, ‘black kids”, what is the first image that pops into your mind? How about Scholar? Student? …
Justin Gehrts
Guest Columnists Jun. 17, 2014 1:10 pm4165d ago
Today, supercomputers perform hundreds of trillions of calculations per second to simulate the atmosphere. Doppler radar finds differences in the …
Tom and Irene Frantzen
Guest Columnists Jun. 16, 2014 1:00 am4167d ago
There is a tremendous farmland transition about to take place. Fifty-six percent of Iowa farmland is owned by people over …
Len Hadley
Guest Columnists Jun. 15, 2014 1:05 am4168d ago
When Chairman Lang commissioned the Board of Regents funding study last April, the charge was to support the missions of …
David Miles
Guest Columnists Jun. 15, 2014 1:05 am4168d ago
The Regents’ June 4th approval of a new performance-based funding model for allocating state appropriations among Iowa’s public universities was …
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