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Althea Cole Staff Columnists Feb. 16, 2025 5:00 am236d ago
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. If it sounds like an …
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Iowa Attorney General Brenna bird talks often of her staunch opposition to abortion. “Every life is valuable and worth our …
Althea Cole Staff Columnists Feb. 9, 2025 11:45 am242d ago
I haven’t seen Democrats this mad since yesterday
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Data disappearing, but practitioners are not giving up
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That low rumbling you might have heard around 9:30 Thursday morning was a seismic change in the way the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission grants casino licenses.
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Score another win for jerks at the Iowa Statehouse.
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Leslie Carpenter’s story is not just personal — it’s a warning sign of a mental health system in Iowa that …
Althea Cole
Staff Columnists Feb. 2, 2025 7:20 pm249d ago
In a surprise upset Tuesday, a Democrat won the Jan. 28 special election to fill an open seat in the …
Staff Columnists Feb. 2, 2025 5:00 am250d ago
Preparing for the long game in the fight for democracy
Staff Columnists Feb. 2, 2025 5:00 am250d ago
Conservative Iowa lawmakers are pursuing legislation that would create the “School of Intellectual Freedom” based at the University of Iowa. …
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So, you’re reading a book, and just getting to the good part. Then you come upon a page that abruptly …
Althea Cole
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For better or worse, I had made it to Washington, D.C., and I was going to that inauguration. I flew …
Staff Columnists Jan. 26, 2025 5:00 am257d ago
If Iowa were a sane state, when presented with evidence of toxic water pollution, we would hold the polluters accountable …
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