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Can a bulldozing Iowa Legislature learn the virtues of a gentle tweak? Count me as skeptical. We’ll soon find out …
For several weeks last fall, there was a doll in the hall of Excelsior Middle School in Marion. The doll …
Linda Schrieber worked at the University of Iowa Hospital in 1973 when the Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal. …
President Donald Trump’s decision last week to order the killing of a top Iranian military official was a terrible misstep …
Lots of scribes are making predictions for 2020. Most will be wrong. So why not be really, really wrong, I …
In 2016, I caucused in precinct 24 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In 2016, only 15.7 percent of Iowa voters participated …
The bipartisan tizzy over the overblown ‘youth vaping epidemic” hit new heights last month. Congress passed and President Donald Trump …
Possibly the worst insult a Democrat can receive in this election cycle is that Republicans would vote for them. And …
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds did the right thing last month when she agreed to continue accepting refugees for resettlement in …
For a moment in 2019, Gordon Sondland seemed to be a hero. During the impeachment hearings, the ambassador to the …
Most states are making good progress toward reasonable drug laws. Iowa is not. It has been a frustrating year for …
On Dec. 6, I took my kids to hear the story of Svaty Mikulas in Czech Village. We are not …
I would have liked to have been in the room when they pulled out the Nazi. It wasn’t just a …
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