By The Gazette Editorial Board Republican Terry Branstad is back as Iowa governor after a decisive victory. No surprise, as …
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By The Gazette Editorial Board Republican Terry Branstad is back as Iowa governor after a decisive victory. No surprise, as …
Civil rights are not won cheaply or easily. You can’t rattle the status quo and breach our comfort zone without …
The Des Moines Register — Finding out who owns a nursing home should be easy. According to a new Government …
Iowa’s race for governor — not so close. So, we have a brand spanking new governor-elect, uh, sort of. Governor-elect …
Even before all the ballots were counted in the vote to repeal Iowa City’s bar-entry age ordinance, the mood downtown …
By The Gazette Editorial Board Tuesday’s national election returns indicated a mounting Republican surge in Congress, but Iowa voters were …
Johnson County officials expect a record turnout today, but things were slow when I stopped by Iowa City Precinct 5 in …
Political Scientist/blogger Brendon Nyhan has devised this bingo card that you can use tonight as you watch cable news pundits …
By The Gazette Editorial Board — The popularity and ease of early voting in recent years have made Election Day …
I left the state for a few days. It was such a liberating feeling, to be beyond the shadowy jurisdictional …
So, I was waiting in the dentist’s office last week, watching a little daytime cable, when a commercial came on …
By The Gazette Editorial Board FREE DENTAL CARE: A salute to the 200 dentists and 1,200 volunteers, including 100 dental …
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