Fri Oct 16, 2020
Social media has made the Black Lives Matter movement undeniable, Iowa Ideas panelists say
CEDAR RAPIDS - Technology has made it so the plight of Black Americans no longer can be ignored....
Thu Oct 15, 2020
Time to act on disparities in Iowa's criminal justice system, Iowa Idea's panelists say
CEDAR RAPIDS - Awareness of racial disparities and inequities in Iowa's criminal justice system is growing but change is slow...
Tue Oct 6, 2020
Pandemic prompted jails, prisons to let inmates out. Should they be locked up again?
The push to release inmates to protect both free and incarcerated populations from COVID-19 raises questions about who we sen...
Thu Oct 3, 2019
Iowans urged to ‘get involved’ as caucuses near
CEDAR RAPIDS - With four months left until Iowa's first-in-the-nation Feb. 3 presidential caucuses, the state's political par...
Wed Dec 19, 2018
How We Got Here: Iowa voting patterns
Iowans vote. In 2017, the Iowa Secretary of State's Office reported that 1,572,633 registered voters made their choice in per...
Fri Sep 21, 2018
Iowa Ideas: In a #MeToo world, men, too, must be involved
CEDAR RAPIDS - In a society where sexual abuse and sexual harassment still are prevalent, we each have a lot of work to do, s...
Thu Feb 22, 2018
Iowans' Ideas: 5 things we need to fix
As Iowans, we tend to believe life is good. After all, we live in a state with safe communities, solid schools and an afforda...
Tue Feb 20, 2018
Has TIF been successful for economic development in Iowa?
For years, Coralville was Iowa's bad boy for its aggressive use of TIF - tax increment financing. Soon we could find out if C...
Tue Feb 20, 2018
Should college sports share the wealth?
There long has been a separation between the playing field and the classroom when it comes to revenue generated by college sp...