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Saturday is my birthday. It’s a small thing in the light of all that is happening in the world. I …
I do not know how to explain to my children what a global pandemic means. And it’s because I don’t …
When we learned this week that a local karaoke host tested positive for COVID-19, bordering Iowa counties had starkly different …
This pandemic didn’t sneak up on us. It came with us watching and refusing to believe what we saw. The …
When the world seems scary, Fred Rogers told us, ‘Always look for the helpers.” Mr. Rogers’ old quote repeatedly has …
I woke up one day last week to learn I no longer exist. The Atlantic published a commentary under the …
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched all of our lives in some way over the past week. Moments of such impact …
In December of 2015, at a campaign rally in North Carolina, a 12-year-old girl came up to Donald Trump and …
On the day I spoke with professor Kate O’Neill via Skype from Kabul, Afghanistan, two rivals each claiming the country’s …
Thousands of Iowans would lose access to the medicine they need under legislation approved by the Iowa House. Republicans passed …
Ellen Keyser Endelman’s whole life is a quarantine. The 24-year-old seminary student lives in Iowa City and, because of a …
More than 100 years, ago, Iowa Citians staged an anti-government uprising. ‘Beer Money,” a new novel by local author S.C. …
After a decade of lobbying Statehouse leaders to fill the Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Trust fund, some cracks have …
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