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We started at the summit. We ended up in a sausage factory. But really, that was education reform’s fate all …
Salon posted a piece Sunday on the legacy of the Villisca axe murders. The 100th anniversary is on June 10. …
My dad worked nearly his whole life for a modest, family-centered chain of department stores, starting out selling shoes and …
Did a Cedar Rapids doctor get a special legislative favor? The Des Moines Register Editorial Board thinks so: Don’t like …
Tom Vilsack runs the food stamp program for our so-called “food stamp president.” Iowa’s former governor and current U.S. secretary …
It’s no surprise that President Barack Obama’s college affordability message got such an enthusiastic response Wednesday in Iowa City. Student …
Welcome to this briefing on the future of live video in the Iowa House. Now, I don’t have to tell …
Two years ago, brand new Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett floated an interesting idea: What if the Corridor Metropolitan Planning …
Radically normal. That’s the phrase Zach Wahls uses to describe the women who raised him. And it’s a fitting description …
Quick. To the Situation Room, for some no spin Hardball, or whatever. The Pew Research Center is out with a …
So I’m back from a 4-day weekend. I’ll pause briefly for the applause to die down. No, really, I was …
If you ask Tom Vilsack, the road to prosperity is paved with pig manure. And plant-based plastics, and bio jet …
My co-worker Diane Langton, as skilled an archives-digger as I’ve ever known, points out that the search for a welcome …
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