The storied neo-noir film director Samuel Fuller observed, “Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.” This …
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The storied neo-noir film director Samuel Fuller observed, “Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.” This …
President Biden, I am writing you about your Middle East policies, after six months of analyzing, researching and reading hundreds …
Guest Column | Science Iowa Board It’s risky when lawmakers play doctor, yet that’s what Iowa legislators do when they …
As a former combat Marine, and a disabled Vietnam veteran, I was both sadly disappointed and troubled by the news …
Guest Column | William Lambers It was March 1945 and the Allied Expeditionary Force, under the command of Gen. Dwight …
The Devil made me read it. He really did. He forced me to read the speech Donald Trump gave to …
Guest Column | Jim Caligiuri Farmers and ranchers represent just 1 percent of the population, yet tend to almost half …
It’s March. I know this for a fact because Canada geese that survived folks shooting at them over the winter …
Property taxes are a top concern for many Iowans. The growing frustration over high property taxes surpasses political party identification …
Conventional wisdom, witnessed by talking to your next door neighbors, friends and even strangers, reveals contemporary American politics is deeply …
The PRESS Act would stop federal agencies and judges from forcing journalists to burn their sources, except to stop terrorism or other life or death emergencies. It would also stop them from spying on journalists through technology providers.
House File 2652 was originally a $3 million grant program to purchase emergency radios for schools, but gun-loving legislators amended the bill to focus on firearms training, paying for the gun permitting process, stipends for employees agreeing to be armed, and for purchase of the weapons.
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