This past weekend, my wife Susan and I celebrated Labor Day in Eastern Iowa the same way we’ve always celebrated …
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This past weekend, my wife Susan and I celebrated Labor Day in Eastern Iowa the same way we’ve always celebrated …
Americans for Prosperity recently held a Taxpayer Town Hall in Hiawatha to discuss the topic of state-level tax reform. The …
State Auditor Rob Sand says Iowa taxpayers shouldn’t pay another dime to defend former Gov. Terry Branstad from legal action …
On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a law making the first Monday in September of each year a …
Maybe we should turn Iowa’s ‘virtual caucus” conundrum over to some elementary school kids. They’d likely know, instinctively, that making …
In a Chinese restaurant in Des Moines, I heard a woman angrily asking a waiter for a better spoon. The …
After Iowa legalized sports betting this year, gamblers are wondering what might be the next frontier in distributed digital gaming. …
It was never allowed to be our body in the centers of power that made America. Not really. Not for …
Friends and family recently paid their respects and said their final farewells to Dorothy Gongwer – friend, neighbor, mother, grandmother, …
This Labor Day, 2019, takes place during the one hundredth anniversary of the extension of women’s right to vote across …
There are 55 million Americans 65 and over today. In 2040, that number will reach 82 million. That massive demographic …
Finally, the days have dwindled down and September is right there in front of us. It’s been a worrisome summer, …
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