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Iowa is desperate to attract workers to fill open positions and populate our stagnating communities. However, a complex web of …
The state whose motto is ‘Live Free or Die” is certainly good at keeping their clamming boots on our neck. …
This tax cut game is rigged. For all of the two decades or so your columnist has been watching state …
Twice in the same week, President Donald Trump and his best friends in Iowa threw themselves unearned victory parties over …
So after nearly a decade of waiting, an Iowa governor has rolled out a plan for, finally, filling the Natural …
With all the TV advertisements, news reports and campaign mail, it would be easy to assume the Iowa caucuses are …
In years past, Genie Maybanks thought that an Iowan who was undecided in January wasn’t paying enough attention. Except now, …
This year is set to be another big one for drug reform in the United States. Not so in Iowa, …
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 …
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