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It’s a device smaller than a briefcase, but it may be the most powerful surveillance technology most Americans have never …
In 2008 and 2016, as the Cedar River swelled beyond its banks, legions of Cedar Rapids residents gathered to fill …
Year Two has arrived. Are you ready? The Gazette is proud to host the return of the Iowa Ideas Conference …
More than three years has passed since a young Burlington mother lost her life in a police-involved shooting, and the …
Is Iowa ready to have split government again? Voters and politicians are fond of recalling the old days when Republicans …
Results from an AARP Iowa survey reveal a shocking number of adults aren’t doing enough to protect themselves from digital …
Americans marked a somber anniversary this week. After 17 years, the memories of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are understandably …
So what’s it going to be, Iowans, a lack of transparency or bushels of hypocrisy? That’s where we’re at as …
The state Board of Regents has a transparency problem, which it pledged to correct. Action taken today and Thursday will …
Americans with non-violent criminal records would get much-deserved second chances under a new federal proposal. U.S. Rep. Rod Blum last …
Iowa is slipping down the rankings of the freest states. That’s according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank …
Tim Gannon, the Democratic nominee for Iowa secretary of agriculture, stopped by our shop about a week ago. We talked …
There is a temptation to think the craziness and the anger of the current political moment is unique. Maybe it …
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