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It is snowing when I meet arts entrepreneur Briana Thompson at The Spot, a local Black owned business in Dubuque. …
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Last week, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Iowa’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA.) While some hailed it as state-level protection of …
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There was a curious double feature playing in the Iowa Senate Tuesday. First, senators approved legislation that would tighten regulation …
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The intense joy on 10-year-old Alma’s face lit up the crowded Perkins Elementary’s gymnasium. The youth Gospel choir, Bridges 2 …
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Republicans are pushing for a constitutional amendment requiring future Legislatures to muster a two-thirds vote in each chamber to raise income taxes
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Iowa lawmakers have nightmares about lab-grown meat rising from its test tube and strangling the state’s livestock industry. So, of …
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Bayer U.S. is a subsidiary of Bayer AG, a global drug and biotechnology conglomerate that raked in $53.3 billion in …
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I am clapping, but only with one hand This week, in the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court Judge …
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You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit. During my decade of volunteer service to a program …
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From a young age, Dr. Tamara Marcus wanted nothing more than to leave Cedar Rapids in her rear view mirror. …
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Lately, a scene from the 1992 film “A Few Good Men” has been stuck in my head. You know the …
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