Goodbye, pink slime. Hy-Vee is the most recent grocer to announce it will discontinue selling lean, finely textured beef – …
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Goodbye, pink slime. Hy-Vee is the most recent grocer to announce it will discontinue selling lean, finely textured beef – …
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Newspapers, rightly, faced a lot of criticism this week for pulling Garry Trudeau’s series of comics about Texas’ sonogram law. …
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I wasn’t there for the vote on Polk. All I know is what I read in the papers. But I …
First, an apology. I’m sorry I won’t be at Monday evening’s Cedar Rapids School Board meeting. A long-planned family vacation …
If your roof leaked, you could set out an army of pans and buckets all over the floor to catch …
(Today’s print column) Tuesday’s rejection of a local-option sales tax extension for flood protection looked razor close on paper. But …
We know now that LOST lost again. It wasn’t as close as last time, though still close. So apparently, as …
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