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Staff Columnists Dec. 24, 2019 2:15 pm
On Dec. 6, I took my kids to hear the story of Svaty Mikulas in Czech Village. We are not …
Staff Columnists Dec. 23, 2019 10:02 am
I would have liked to have been in the room when they pulled out the Nazi. It wasn’t just a …
Staff Columnists Dec. 18, 2019 5:53 am
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley once stated, of impeachment, ‘Some say that this impeachment effort is part of a right wing …
Staff Columnists May. 27, 2022 10:44 am
It was a concert everyone around here remembers: Big and Rich and Blake Shelton at Kinnick Stadium and emceed by …
Staff Columnists Dec. 11, 2019 12:31 pm
My daughter has always been magic. A preschool teacher once sent home a note saying she had spent most of …
Staff Columnists Dec. 10, 2019 2:26 pm
The first time I met the head of the Republican Party of Iowa was at a rally against impeachment. The …
Staff Columnists Dec. 5, 2019 8:57 am
On a snowy night in Sioux City, 172 people stamped into West Middle School to hear South Bend, Ind., Mayor …
Staff Columnists Nov. 29, 2019 9:46 am
It’s a story I can only tell in pieces – a woman I love leaving her home and marriage in …
Staff Columnists Nov. 27, 2019 9:50 am
Last year, I watched as 20 second-graders reenacted a slave auction for a school’s annual Thanksgiving Day play. The play …
Staff Columnists Nov. 21, 2019 10:40 am
Elizabeth Warren used to be a Republican. She grew up in Oklahoma and like any woman in America she’s had …
Staff Columnists Nov. 19, 2019 6:32 pm
This past week, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and professional rich man Michael Bloomberg announced their 2020 presidential campaigns. Which …
Staff Columnists Nov. 13, 2019 3:34 pm
Bill Montgomery sat in the hall of the Iowa Memorial Student Union and whispered to me that socialism is infecting …
Opinion Nov. 15, 2019 1:47 pm
For three years, Rev. Anna Blaedel, an openly queer Methodist minister and former director of the Wesley Center at the …
Staff Columnists Nov. 14, 2019 7:05 pm
‘Julian Castro is right” is not a sentence I thought I would write. But 2019 has been a crazy ride …
Staff Columnists Nov. 11, 2019 11:10 am
It’s always something on this land: withering summers, freezing winters, flooding springs, trade wars, and pesticides. One third of our …