Sofia DeMartino

“Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part."

Focus on underserved community members is important

With the increase in cases, seeking care for non-COVID illnesses and injuries becomes more challenging.

Last month, in an attempt to regain possession of my phone from my 7-year-old, I bought her a tablet. I …

For those of us who lived it, the consequences are still keeping us up at night.

The current rate of births is the lowest it has been since the 1930s and people are concerned.

New Iowa law is a highly politicized scare tactic heightening hysteria around the threat that never was

Linn County is growing, and nearly half of that growth is due to immigration.

“We are thinking about what the library’s role might be in the future and planning what we can bring to informational services.”

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.

The imagined danger posed by Black people existing remains a box office smash, turning out voters, consumers, and vigilantes year after year after bloody year.

“If there is no available affordable child care, you can’t work — and more often than not, child care continues to fall within the responsibility of women.”

It is incumbent upon us — us the community; us the collective; us the village — to support the success of our children as best we are able

Throughout the pandemic, a widespread challenge for nonprofit agencies has been maintaining volunteer levels that support the work at hand.

Lack of available housing, exacerbated by last year’s derecho, is a massive barrier to those who have already had their escape plans on hold for months due to the pandemic.