DES MOINES – With COVID-19 raging through Iowa at a disturbing pace, never before seen during the pandemic, the debate …
Erin Murphy Opinion Nov. 16, 2020 9:00 am1754d ago
DES MOINES – With COVID-19 raging through Iowa at a disturbing pace, never before seen during the pandemic, the debate …
Adam Sullivan Staff Columnists Nov. 16, 2020 6:00 am1754d ago
What lessons should Republicans learn from the 2020 elections? On one hand, Republicans gained seats in the U.S. House and …
Staff Columnists Nov. 15, 2020 7:00 am1755d ago
Back in the spring of 2017, your columnist humbly argued that Iowa Democrats might want to think about tapping a …
Staff Editorials Nov. 15, 2020 6:30 am1755d ago
President-elect Joe Biden faces considerable political obstacles to enacting the most ambitious pieces of his agenda. The biggest hurdle, pending …
Theresa Lewis
Guest Columnists Nov. 15, 2020 6:00 am1755d ago
COVID-19 has changed all of our lives in so many ways. We are still uncertain of the long term effects …
Norman Sherman
Guest Columnists Nov. 16, 2020 4:10 pm1754d ago
Over the past four years Donald Trump has proclaimed his special place among all presidents before him. He sees a …
Bruce R. Bachmann Aug. 26, 2020 4:14 pm1836d ago
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Jeffery J Schaeffer Aug. 23, 2020 2:50 pm1839d ago
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Doug Crosby Aug. 23, 2020 1:00 am1839d ago
Suzette Astley Aug. 22, 2020 1:00 am1840d ago
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Leon Schmidt Aug. 22, 2020 1:00 am1840d ago
Lou Leonhardt Aug. 22, 2020 1:00 am1840d ago
Hal Penick Aug. 22, 2020 1:00 am1840d ago
Michael Schmidt and Josh Mandelbaum Guest Columnists Nov. 14, 2020 6:00 am1756d ago
Last week, Alliant Energy announced it would retire its coal-fired Lansing Generating Station by the end of 2022 and convert …
Dr. Pat Winokur Guest Columnists Nov. 13, 2020 2:45 pm1757d ago
On Nov. 9, Pfizer pharmaceutical company announced promising preliminary results from clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. This was …
Staff Columnists Nov. 13, 2020 6:00 am1757d ago
Iowa now has a road map for local governments to wind down the drug war. A Des Moines task force …
Staff Editorials Nov. 12, 2020 4:37 pm1758d ago
Iowa should adopt a set of policies to diminish racial bias in policing, according to a committee appointed by the …
Staff Columnists Nov. 12, 2020 7:00 am1758d ago
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds stood before reporters this week in a state flooding with COVID-19 and tossed us some paper …
Staff Editorials Nov. 11, 2020 4:27 pm1759d ago
This week, more than eight months after Iowa’s first COVID-19 case was diagnosed, Gov. Kim Reynolds issued her first-ever statewide …
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