Jury selection took place this week in the trial of Henry Rayhons, a former Iowa lawmaker who stands accused of …
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Jury selection took place this week in the trial of Henry Rayhons, a former Iowa lawmaker who stands accused of …
Only the governor knows. Gov. Terry Branstad knows more about closing mental health facilities than mental health advocates. He knows …
Corrected to reflect that Maynard will be giving an invocation in the House only . So a Wiccan priestess walks …
So we’ve learned, thanks to Indiana’s baffling legislative backflip into pariah canyon, that discrimination can be bad for business. Sure, …
In politics, the truth is too often drowned out by perceptions, and such perceptions are driven by a lack of …
When the U.S. Supreme Court returned its decision in the Hobby Lobby contraception coverage case, I argued the set stage …
CRUZ MASTERFULLY SLICES HARD RIGHT INTO AMEN CORNER First impression: Ted Cruz is no snooze. The U.S. senator from Texas …
We’ve been looking at lines on maps around these parts since the fall of 2008, when the Cedar Rapids City …
Despite its auspicious beginnings in about 500 BC and subsequent debate, the idea that nature abhors a vacuum was imprinted …
So I’ve made a surprise cameo appearance in the big legal tussle between Iowa’s governor and the state’s former workers’ …
A significant (and I believe growing) number of Iowans no longer fit neatly into the two historic political categories that …
CRUZ DOMINATES NEWS. SOME ENTHUSED. OTHERS AMUSED. BUT WILL HE LOSE WHEN IOWANS CHOOSE? It was U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s …
OK, Republican caucus campaign staffers, repeat after me. ‘I (state your name) pledge allegiance to the First-In-the-Nation Iowa caucuses, and …
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