On June 28, 1914, as Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria toured the city of Sarajevo, members of a Serbian nationalist …
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Joe Sheller Guest Columnists Jun. 21, 2014 1:00 am4256d 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 am4258d 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 am4259d 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 pm4260d 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 am4261d 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 am4262d 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 am4262d ago
The Regents’ June 4th approval of a new performance-based funding model for allocating state appropriations among Iowa’s public universities was …
Jim Martin-Schramm Guest Columnists Jun. 14, 2014 1:05 am4263d ago
As we celebrate the summer solstice on June 21, this is a great time for Iowans to invest in solar …
Raymond Jorgensen
Guest Columnists Jun. 13, 2014 1:05 am4264d ago
I’ve been disappointed by Cedar Rapids’ pursuit of a casino project for months. Even now that the gambling commission turned …
Mark S. Edwards
Guest Columnists Jun. 12, 2014 1:00 am4265d ago
‘In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” – Henry David Thoreau Have you heard about the monarch butterfly die-off? …
Gary Maydew
Guest Columnists Jun. 11, 2014 10:39 am4266d ago
Media on the left and the right are largely agreed that, as commentators have described, we now have a ‘barbell …
Gordon Taylor
Guest Columnists Jun. 11, 2014 1:08 am4266d ago
I must try to speak for the ‘minority faiths” referred to in the guest editorial May 26, ‘Act now to …
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