So our elected leaders in Des Moines are already on the brink of a serious slap fight over education funding. …
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So our elected leaders in Des Moines are already on the brink of a serious slap fight over education funding. …
Patricia Edmonds’ shop is tied up in legal shades of gray. Raymond Nees, assistant manager of building services for this …
I posted earlier about the first TV ad being aired by Vote Yes Linn County in favor of a casino …
Vote Yes Linn County, the group pushing for casino gambling in Cedar Rapids, is out with it’s first TV ad. …
A few more reactions to Gov. Terry Branstad’s Condition of the State address. The Quad-City Times credits the governor for …
Maybe it wasn’t your favorite Condition of the State address. But it probably had a lot of the same words. …
Gov. Terry Branstad unveiled his education reform ideas Monday. And there are some good ones. Raising starting teacher salaries is …
So all I have to do to strong-arm the folks at the University of Iowa, one of the state’s largest …
At our gilded Statehouse, where the Legislature returns Monday, division equals subtraction. The House is still controlled by Republicans, though …
Would a “diversity policy” by any other name have raised this much of a stink? We’ll probably never know. But …
If I had just finished managing President Obama’s 2012 re-election effort in a hotly-contested battleground state such as Ioway, I’d …
Political bedfellows are rarely strange anymore. It’s red or blue or nada. Then there’s gambling. In Iowa, the players don’t …
Jonathan Narcisse, the former Des Moines school board member who ran for governor as an independent in 2010, made the …
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