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Our history is filled with fights over history, and we’re doomed to repeat them. Over and over again. This time, …
Much consternation has taken place over the past few years in Johnson County due to the Iowa City Schools’ facilities …
A downtown renaissance is just around the corner. At least that’s what The Gazette said in September of 1983, in …
The picture tucked into my photo album wasn’t what I expected. In that photo, I’m a little girl, holding a …
Our race for governor has taken a nostalgic turn, with ‘Big Debt Chet,” I-JOBS and the Flood of 2008 all …
Our governor is pledging to serve his entire sixth term if he’s re-elected this fall. Swell. But good luck figuring …
(Today’s Insight section featured several essays on what being an Iowan means. Here’s my contribution) On the muggy May night …
City leaders in Fort Madison have agreed to split a plot of land they know to be historic. While dividing …
In the summer of 1988, I was 20-years-old. had two years of college under my belt, and sneaked out of …
So Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and his Democratic challenger Jack Hatch debated in a livestock pavilion at the Iowa State …
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the call. Because it could be Janet Wagner, and she’s not letting you off the …
So it’s been 40 years since President Nixon resigned as the Watergate scandal exploded in the summer of 1974. I …
Michael Brown was an 18-year-old black man who died Saturday, gunned down by police outside his apartment complex. He was …
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