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When this election is complete, I hope to travel and stand alongside the Standing Rock Sioux. It’s the least I …
So I’m interviewing state Sen. Liz Mathis over coffee at Wit’s End in Marion recently when a guy stops for …
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So my own state representative has had enough. Rep. Ken Rizer, R-Cedar Rapids, took to Facebook Saturday to explain why …
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Do not blame Mike Pence. In this week’s vice presidential debate Pence did the only thing he could. Wisconsin radio …
So I was a sixth-grade Republican in 1982, with a Branstad bumper sticker on my Trapper Keeper. It was the …
We know, thanks to U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley’s famous 2014 tweet, that Dairy Queen can be a good place for …
For the past five years, Iowa law has required citizens wanting a weapons permit to pay for a ‘safety” class …
Back on Tuesday, Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett compared his city’s anxious wait for the Cedar River’s flood crest to …
Have outdated and onerous zoning ordinances and environmental protections stifled housing development and local economies? A new federal report says …
So Cedar Rapids weathered the Cedar River’s latest surge. This time, the preparation, not the flood, was ‘epic.” ‘We won …
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