James Q. Lynch

“It doesn’t have to be a holiday to miss him,” Kristen Massey says about her husband, an Army Reservist serving …

Kirsten Running-Marquardt handily won election to a seat in the Iowa House from a heavily Democratic south-side Cedar Rapids district …

Former California Republican U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter will headline a Dec. 5 fundraiser in Cedar Rapids for GOP congressional hopeful …

Political strategists Jerry Crawford, a Des Moines Democrat, and Mike Mahaffey, a Montezuma Republican, will discuss the political landscape, both …

The weather may be getting cooler, but it’s still flip-flop weather for Iowa politics. According to recent news releases, Democratic …

Curt Hames, a Marion businessman, and Tim Hagle of North Liberty, a political science professor at University of Iowa, will …

U.S. Rep. Tom Latham, R-Ames, now has a Democratic challenger. Bill Maske, former Butler County Democratic chairman, has announced he …

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bob Vander Plaats is blaming rival Terry Branstad for Democrats’ 60th vote to bring health-care reform legislation …

The clock is ticking, but Iowa lawmakers will be hard-pressed to find funds for measures to reduce the impact of …

CEDAR RAPIDS – They’re young, they feel called to serve and they see flood recovery as their top priority. One …

Bob Krause, Democratic U. S. Senate hopeful, called Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley “an enemy of jobs for Iowans” because he …

By James Q. Lynch The Gazette The Democratic candidate in a special election in a south-side Cedar Rapids Iowa House …

More than three dozen Iowans are heading to Texas to rub elbows with action movie star Chuck Norris Friday evening. …

By James Q. Lynch The Gazette Sen. Tom Harkin is planning no big celebration of his 70 th birthday. “I’m …

By James Q. Lynch The Gazette Sen. Tom Harkin is lending his support to a proposal to move terrorism detainees …