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On the second day of home schooling with my kids, my nine-year-old looked at her long division work sheet and …
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Southern African concept of ‘ubuntu” lately. I spent a couple of years living …
A sharp-eyed reader called to my attention that the group Americans for Prosperity has been actively pushing back against blanket …
I run four times a week. From my house, toward Mercy Hospital, looping through downtown before heading back up First …
In a national emergency like the one we are living through now, government officials have incredible power to restrict individual …
Easter 2020 will be long remembered as the year we hid along with the eggs. If the Easter bunny made …
Last week, the newspaper received its first obituary for a death related to COVID-19. The notice came through my email …
In jurisdictions that embrace harm reduction – the movement to minimize the negative effects of drugs, rather than prohibit them …
Gov. Kim Reynolds says pointed, persistent questions about her efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 are ‘divisive.” Her allies …
At a Subway restaurant in northwest Iowa, families come in during the lunch rush and laugh and talk, standing close …
Perhaps the biggest failure in the United States’ response to the coronavirus – which has been one of the worst …
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across Iowa, more of the state’s 23 million hogs will be allowed to shelter in …
I met Kayla Koether on March 3, back when we were allowed to meet people. It was Super Tuesday and …
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