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This state continues to amaze me. For example, about six months ago I was hired on with a well-known security …
The buzz words, ‘school choice” and a voucher called Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are here. What’s at risk? Iowa’s nationally …
In response to James Heires’ criticism of the proposed Iowa Senate resolution recognizing the crinoid as the state fossil of …
The ‘Nunes memo” alleges that a FISA warrant for a Trump campaign official was improperly obtained because the evidence it …
Regarding the Feb. 1 Walter Williams column ‘Consider immigration lies and hypocrisy”: After reading this article I am left with …
In 2013, the Republicans cut commercial property taxes for large corporations and then, foolishly, took general fund money to backfill …
We have an extraordinary opportunity to election a governor who emerged by popular demand, not from establishment politics. Cathy Glasson, …
A married colleague of mine, who has two children under the age of 26, told me she paid $900 a …
Anyone ever heard of the band Maroon 5? Can you name one of their songs? Me neither. The organizers of …
Going into the first days of the 2018 Iowa Legislative Session, the League of Women Voters of Johnson County finds …
The usual and expected responses are being made to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union. The agenda he outlined …
More than 317,000 Iowans care for their parents, spouses and other loved ones so they can live safely and independently …
I am supporting Nate Boulton for Iowa governor because a year ago I saw him out front with Iowa Democrats …
In response to Ralph Russell’s Feb. 4 letter ‘Disrespect causes reader to skip game,” which implied that kneeling for the …
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