This Labor Day is a reminder to the Iowa Democratic Party about the importance of returning to our roots of prairie populism.
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This Labor Day is a reminder to the Iowa Democratic Party about the importance of returning to our roots of prairie populism.
A few weeks after 9/11, my family celebrated my son’s first birthday. The next day, then-President George W. Bush announced the United States military engagement in Afghanistan.
People in this debate generally fall into two camps: Milk Truthers and Milk Abstractionists.
It’s just an old pocket watch, one that rests easily on a table next to my favorite chair, a watch …
The party in power could redraw lines to its own benefit, a tactic known as gerrymandering whereby politicians pick their voters, instead of the other way around.
Forty years ago the Iowa Legislature rejected conventional politics and used a nonpartisan model to redistrict itself in a move that has become a national beacon for the one-person one-vote principle.
Under current law, Iowa health care providers need government permission to build new facilities or expand their existing operations
This week the U.S. Department of Education announced it will investigate Iowa and four other states to determine if bans …
We’re laying my dad to rest today. It seems inappropriate, considering how hard Howard Dorman worked and how little he …
We have an opportunity to consciously shape the sort of post-pandemic “normal” we’ll create.
I have been a pediatrician in Cedar Rapids for 40 years. Along with the aches and pains that inevitably come …
It isn’t too late for the Board of Supervisors to avoid being responsible for this costly piece of equipment and the harm it will do.
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