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As chief elections official in Iowa, the Secretary of State’s top priority must be ensuring our elections are clean, fair …
In case you haven’t heard, there will be an election in November. I am sure you have noticed commercial after …
Belfast, Ireland, 1979. A train pulls out of Central Station, bound for Dublin. My wife, three sons, and I are …
On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a letter to the editor was published regarding the investigation of racial discrimination and imbalance within …
U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst published an opinion piece in The Des Moines Register regarding Social Security. She used the …
Ryan Flood Iowa college students are mired in debt and Congress has done little to make it cheaper for us …
I am a teacher. I have spent my career working with and advocating for students with severe emotional and behavioral …
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 …
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