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The enormous population of Iowans behind bars is finally shrinking. All it took was the deadliest global public health crisis …
I’m old enough to remember last week at Gov. Reynold’s daily news conference, when officials declared that Iowa was successfully …
April 20 – the marijuana holiday, 420 for short – is longer this year. This is the once-per-century 4/20 month. …
Believe science! Trust the experts! Frustrated Americans yell at politicians, compatriots or no one in particular during the coronavirus pandemic. …
Each time the governor shares the day’s COVID-19 numbers, she makes sure the media and Iowans know how many cases …
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 …
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