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Todd Dorman Staff Columnists Apr. 10, 2020 2:35 pm2144d ago
Easter 2020 will be long remembered as the year we hid along with the eggs. If the Easter bunny made …
Lyz Lenz Staff Columnists Apr. 10, 2020 12:10 pm2145d ago
Last week, the newspaper received its first obituary for a death related to COVID-19. The notice came through my email …
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In jurisdictions that embrace harm reduction – the movement to minimize the negative effects of drugs, rather than prohibit them …
Todd Dorman Staff Columnists Apr. 9, 2020 8:00 am2146d ago
Gov. Kim Reynolds says pointed, persistent questions about her efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 are ‘divisive.” Her allies …
Lyz Lenz Staff Columnists Apr. 8, 2020 9:52 pm2146d ago
At a Subway restaurant in northwest Iowa, families come in during the lunch rush and laugh and talk, standing close …
Staff Columnists Apr. 7, 2020 11:23 am2148d ago
Perhaps the biggest failure in the United States’ response to the coronavirus – which has been one of the worst …
Staff Columnists Apr. 6, 2020 9:54 am2149d ago
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across Iowa, more of the state’s 23 million hogs will be allowed to shelter in …
Staff Columnists Apr. 4, 2020 5:53 pm2150d ago
I met Kayla Koether on March 3, back when we were allowed to meet people. It was Super Tuesday and …
Staff Columnists Apr. 2, 2020 5:55 pm2152d ago
Iowa’s tiny market for legal cannabis just shrank even smaller. Medical dispensaries in Davenport and Council Bluffs operated by Have …
Staff Columnists Apr. 2, 2020 8:00 am2153d ago
It won’t be long before we get yet another set of dismal coronavirus numbers. This time it will be falling …
Staff Columnists Apr. 1, 2020 5:16 pm2153d ago
The Iowa Department of Public Health’s COVID-19 map is a patchwork – three dark red counties marking large numbers, a …
Staff Columnists Mar. 31, 2020 7:43 am2155d ago
Welcome to Iowa, where in the middle of a global pandemic you can still walk into a Hobby Lobby, but …
Staff Columnists Mar. 30, 2020 5:25 pm2155d ago
U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie was a lonely man in Washington, D.C., last week. As the U.S. House was set to …
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