About a quarter of all Iowans live in child care deserts – locations in which access to child care is …
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Staff Columnists Oct. 1, 2018 5:30 am2639d ago
About a quarter of all Iowans live in child care deserts – locations in which access to child care is …
Todd Dorman Staff Columnists Sep. 30, 2018 8:00 am2640d ago
About this time 20 years ago, I was sitting across a desk from Tom Vilsack at his campaign headquarters, asking …
Staff Columnists Sep. 29, 2018 7:55 am2641d ago
The latest round of testimony in Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee ended in utter disrespect …
Adam Sullivan Staff Columnists Sep. 29, 2018 6:00 am2641d ago
Sen. Chuck Grassley, it’s not too late. You and I both are lifelong Iowa Republicans. I have voted for you …
Adam Sullivan Staff Columnists Sep. 28, 2018 10:50 am2641d ago
Schools and libraries marked the past week as Banned Books Week, a time to recognize historic and ongoing efforts to …
Staff Columnists Sep. 27, 2018 8:00 am2643d ago
Truth, they say, is the first casualty of politics. But magnanimity has to be high on the list. In July, …
Staff Columnists Sep. 26, 2018 10:49 am2643d ago
Sexual assault is the most underreported violent crime in the nation. Yet, on Friday morning, President Donald Trump questioned why …
Staff Columnists Sep. 24, 2018 5:25 pm2645d ago
With less than two weeks before Iowans will start casting ballots in this year’s general election, voters are still waiting …
Staff Columnists Sep. 22, 2018 3:00 pm2647d ago
Iowans celebrated an unofficial holiday this past week – the return of E15 fuel. To hear some Iowa politicians tell …
Staff Columnists Sep. 22, 2018 9:12 am2648d ago
Twenty-seven years ago the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee had no process to vet claims of sexual misconduct. Today, nothing has …
Staff Columnists Sep. 20, 2018 8:00 am2650d ago
Warning: Satire. Somewhere high above a patchwork quilt of Iowa farmland, a borrowed corporate jet streaks across the sky. Inside, …
Staff Columnists Sep. 18, 2018 10:49 am2651d ago
It’s a device smaller than a briefcase, but it may be the most powerful surveillance technology most Americans have never …
Staff Columnists Sep. 17, 2018 10:18 am2652d ago
In 2008 and 2016, as the Cedar River swelled beyond its banks, legions of Cedar Rapids residents gathered to fill …
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