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New rankings from U.S. News and World Report call Iowa the best state in the nation. Iowa earned particularly high …
What if LGBT activists took over the Republican Party and nobody noticed? That’s what some right-wing commentators claim happened at …
Cannibalization was so 2017. This year, it’s imagination. Well, at least on the west side of the Cedar River downtown, …
Hey, what’s that sound? I’ve got that Buffalo Springfield song going through my head. The 1960s protest song ‘For What …
Imagine opening an email message from your boss and discovering a video clip of a woman in a Santa hat …
I cannot believe I have to write this, but here we are. Attempting to discredit the media is not a …
Key pathways in Iowa’s quest to reduce recidivism are initiatives the Department of Corrections can’t initiate. About 95 percent of …
Republican politicians are re-imagining the laws of economics. According to the trending theory, the government’s restrictions have very little impact …
It was a good speech, it was a bad speech. Iowa City Mayor Jim Throgmorton delivered the annual State of …
I’m rooting for the kids. The kids are from Parkland, Fla., students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who faced …
Hundreds of area residents who took time this past snowy Saturday morning to attend a League of Women Voters’ Legislative …
Two important marijuana reform bills survived the first funnel deadline of the 2018 Iowa Legislature. Iowa has one of the …
DES MOINES – Immigration arrests and deportations sharply increased during the past year in Iowa and neighboring states, federal figures …
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