116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Lyz Lenz
Latest Articles by Lyz Lenz
Staff Columnists Mar. 10, 2020 4:04 pm
Nothing heightens romance in a marriage like a little swindle. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported this week that the faith-based …
Staff Columnists Feb. 11, 2020 9:51 am
When she was 16, my sister woke up from a nightmare. She dreamed she was being attacked by someone she …
Staff Columnists Feb. 7, 2020 10:43 am
In the absolute pandemonium over the delayed Democratic caucus results, the calls to end Iowa’s quadrennial political purgatory have grown …
Staff Columnists Feb. 4, 2020 7:31 am
In the end, we did this to ourselves. We played ourselves. The chaos and pandemonium out of the caucuses are …
Staff Columnists Jan. 31, 2020 5:16 pm
On Jan. 24, 2020, at a Bernie Sanders rally in Iowa City, America feels like it’s rushing toward something no …
Staff Columnists Jan. 28, 2020 1:36 pm
Krista Sigel wants to caucus, but with a baby who is almost a year old, she doesn’t know how to …
Staff Columnists Jan. 24, 2020 3:38 pm
When Jean Hall Lloyd-Jones was a state representative, she led women on tours of the Capitol. She wanted women to …
Staff Columnists Jan. 21, 2020 2:25 pm
The night of Nov. 8, 2016, I was at an election party, wearing a suit, drinking and watching the results …
Staff Columnists Jan. 17, 2020 11:45 am
The state whose motto is ‘Live Free or Die” is certainly good at keeping their clamming boots on our neck. …
Staff Columnists Jan. 14, 2020 1:06 pm
In years past, Genie Maybanks thought that an Iowan who was undecided in January wasn’t paying enough attention. Except now, …
Staff Columnists Jan. 10, 2020 3:36 pm
For several weeks last fall, there was a doll in the hall of Excelsior Middle School in Marion. The doll …
Staff Columnists Jan. 8, 2020 1:31 pm
Linda Schrieber worked at the University of Iowa Hospital in 1973 when the Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal. …
Staff Columnists Jan. 5, 2020 4:00 am
In 2016, I caucused in precinct 24 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 2016, only 15.7 percent of Iowa voters participated …
Staff Columnists Jan. 2, 2020 10:08 am
Possibly the worst insult a Democrat can receive in this election cycle is that Republicans would vote for them. And …
Staff Columnists Dec. 30, 2019 11:33 am
For a moment in 2019, Gordon Sondland seemed to be a hero. During the impeachment hearings, the ambassador to the …