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Twenty-six Novembers ago, I used my open campus period to leave school and cast my very first vote. I hopped …
No one wants to pay more taxes, but sometimes it really is the best of the bad options. When Johnson …
Joni Ernst seems to be disrespecting quite a few folks. You may have read in our U.S. Senate endorsement that …
So much for my good ideas. Last fall, after the Cedar Rapids City Council voted to give City Manager Jeff …
Note: Corrected to reflect that average food assistannce in Iowa is $120 per month, per individual. Another election cycle, another …
When I asked Gov. Terry Branstad for his opinion on a possible legislative effort to put a smoke-free casino in …
Some folks didn’t take kindly to my calling voter ID laws a scam in last Sunday’s column. So, in their …
How’s cynicism working out for you? Perhaps it is ill timing that during 2014 election mega millions racing across televisions, …
‘TODAY, IOWA IS BOOMING…” proclaims a mailer from the Republican Party of Iowa, promoting Gov. Terry Branstad’s re-election bid. Unlike …
Not everybody running this fall has made me cringe, sigh or reach for the remote. My daughter Tess, a seventh-grader, …
A telephone rings. Again. And again. Hello. This is an automated survey regarding the upcoming election conducted by Please, Don’t …
It’s safe to say it now. Voter ID is a scam. That’s not exactly how the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office …
We aren’t doing right by our young adults. Perched on the edge of a large pink bubble – part sofa, …
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