Five years ago, I submitted a guest column to The Gazette about compassion offered to those who use marijuana. This …
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Five years ago, I submitted a guest column to The Gazette about compassion offered to those who use marijuana. This …
Campaigning for an at-large seat on the Iowa City Council in 2019, I had hundreds of conversations. I got a …
I approach the task of focusing on what I hope we as a council can accomplish in 2021 with great …
Images showing long lines of cars waiting to get boxes of food from pantries offer a visual representation of the …
If 2020 was a TV show, it would be ‘Stranger Things.” It’s the show that introduced us to the upside-down …
At times I find it hard to believe that just three months ago I was elected by my neighbors to …
What if every Linn County resident spent 10 percent of their food dollars on local foods? What would that do …
People will sometimes write to praise or condemn a column I wrote weeks ago. I can barely recall it. The …
Miscoordination between state and national leaders and a series of technology problems were to blame for Iowa’s poorly executed Democratic …
Iowa City wants to push for a local-option sales tax (LOST) as part of its plan to restructure the Iowa …
The other day more than 3,000 people in the United States died from COVID-19. A pandemic rages through our country. …
The year of 2020 has been difficult. Linn County still is recovering from two concurrent disasters. The global pandemic continues …
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