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When the videotape of journalist Daniel Pearl’s brutal murder was released in 2002, it was handed to an undercover FBI …
Now that we’re safely past the election, talk has turned to the prospect of raising Iowa’s gas tax. Funny how …
As a kid, I remember standing in front of enormous glass cases in the Iowa Statehouse rotunda. Inside were dozens …
What a waste. That’s been the most common sentiment I’ve heard, both from Republicans and Democrats, when talk turns to …
Something ugly has happened in Eastern Iowa. Cornell College’s Black Awareness Cultural Organization (BACO) has been hosting a weeklong awareness …
Voters like to pride themselves on sending messages through the ballot box and, most of the time, such messages are …
First, let’s acknowledge the history. Joni Ernst’s victory tonight in Iowa’s U.S. Senate race is a big moment. The Red …
Iowa voters likely will make some history today. The question is how much? For starters, if a string of lopsided …
Be kind to chickens. If there’s a big lesson we can all agree on from the 2014 campaign in Iowa, …
Rejoice, fellow Iowans. We’ve outlived the seemingly never-ending stream of political nastiness that attempted to hijack our lives – not …
I’m fairly sure Southern heritage has me genetically predisposed to scrappiness. I love a good debate and have sometimes purposefully …
Linn County Supervisor Brent Oleson is in hot water for putting loyalty to a friend before his partisan duties, and …
So today marks the end of endorsement season, that heady time each even-numbered autumn when newspapers such as this one …
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