I’m sure the pitched partisan battle over voting in Iowa makes perfect sense to pitched partisans. To me, it smacks …
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I’m sure the pitched partisan battle over voting in Iowa makes perfect sense to pitched partisans. To me, it smacks …
Thanks to state Sen. Mark Chelgren, we can all take a brief mental trip to July. You remember July. Wind …
Iowa governors have a lot of power. Vetoes and line-item vetoes, appointments and transfer authority, across-the-board budget axing, executive ordering, …
So the Republicans who run your Iowa House say they won’t approve public school funding for the 2015-2016 school year, …
So I guess it’s still not all water park under the bridge. Nearly a year after Linn County voters gave …
Now that only the trivialities of voting stand between Gov. Terry Branstad and a divinely mandated sixth term, we can …
Since I rolled into this town six-plus years ago, any mention of Gary Hinzman’s name usually was tied to something …
Some folks think the War of the Ricks will bring peace to our deceptive, cringe-inducing politics. Back in 2010, State …
History’s spotlight usually misses the mechanics. Sure, there are reels of footage and stacks of photos of B-29 Superfortresses rumbling …
I read Kathleen Parker’s column on our opinion page Tuesday with alarm. I had no idea that columnists were being …
Last year, about this time, I was pretty hard on the Linn County Board of Supervisors for giving themselves a …
The Des Moines Register has a nice piece today about Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nov. 11, 1959, speech in Iowa …
They say death and taxes are life’s only certainties. They, whoever they are, must not have heard about Gov. Terry …
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