Raise your hand if you remember when Congress debated making ketchup a vegetable. Many people remember the absurdity, even as …
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Raise your hand if you remember when Congress debated making ketchup a vegetable. Many people remember the absurdity, even as …
If you heard Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett’s State of the City speech Wednesday as one of the interested citizens, …
Sadly, we’ve seen this one before. Iowans suffering from chronic, painful medical conditions, their families and friends troop to the …
Policies set by school districts to address negative school lunch account balances are drawing headlines, and make clear that it …
Apple has been ordered to develop software for a very important reason. Even so, the tech giant is right to …
There’s been much bickering lately over presidents and precedents. Should presidents be permitted to nominate justices to the U.S. Supreme …
It felt like a reset moment. An iconic, influential and consequential U.S. Supreme Court justice, Antonin Scalia, died. That stunning …
We grew up hearing how ‘love is patient, love is kind,” but now we have social media. In honor of …
Ah, Valentine’s Day. The wait is over. It probably goes without saying, but for a middle-aged Midwestern man, there’s no …
More of Iowa’s kids have health insurance. Now we need a more robust system that allows them to use it. …
So a ‘concerned citizen” came to Cedar Rapids Tuesday to decry the Branstad administration’s effort to privatize Medicaid. He looked …
So for a columnist, like myself, the Legislature is a gift that keeps on giving. But in the highly unlikely …
Another Iowa caucus season, another long line of critics ready to diminish the state’s first-in-the-nation status based on resident demographics. …
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