If you believe the punditry, the out-of-touch label carries a $10,000 price tag. That’s how much Republican presidential hopeful Mitt …
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Todd Dorman Staff Columnists Dec. 12, 2011 12:16 pm5126d ago
If you believe the punditry, the out-of-touch label carries a $10,000 price tag. That’s how much Republican presidential hopeful Mitt …
Staff Columnists Dec. 10, 2011 6:31 am5129d ago
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against Black Friday, or Small Business Saturday or Cyber Monday. Those quasi-official, shopping-extravaganza …
Staff Columnists Dec. 9, 2011 3:24 pm5129d ago
In the spirit of all the “What if..” pages popping up around here, The City of Iowa City has launched …
Todd Dorman Staff Columnists Dec. 9, 2011 2:28 pm5129d ago
I can’t understand why so many Republicans are eager to throw away a perfectly good Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential …
Todd Dorman Staff Columnists Dec. 9, 2011 12:24 pm5129d ago
In March, local voters will emerge from winter quarters to show us if we’ll have 10 more years of sales …
Staff Columnists Dec. 7, 2011 9:20 am5132d ago
State leaders have played coy for months about how they plan to pay for ambitious education reforms. For weeks, Gov. …
Staff Columnists Dec. 6, 2011 4:05 am5133d ago
Leave town for one lousy weekend and I miss seeing my first drone protest. Maybe you also missed it when …
Staff Columnists Dec. 4, 2011 7:29 pm5134d ago
Today’s print column, delayed by technical difficulty. Linda Seger first heard it about a month ago. She was dropping off …
Staff Columnists Dec. 2, 2011 11:36 pm5136d ago
If the 1960s brought us the idea that the personal is political, 2011 may well go down as the year …
Staff Columnists Dec. 1, 2011 12:48 pm5137d ago
Johnson County Supervisors are looking to next November to hold a $39 million referendum to fund a sorely needed new …
Staff Columnists Dec. 1, 2011 9:07 am5138d ago
Rev. Welton Gaddy says our founders sought to put constitutional space between religion and the nation’s new government for a very …
Staff Columnists Nov. 29, 2011 11:02 pm5139d ago
Two recent, high-profile scandals have Gov. Terry Branstad calling for a review of state sex-abuse laws. Branstad told reporters Monday …
Staff Columnists Nov. 29, 2011 8:54 am5140d ago
Today’s print column. We may soon find out if the First Amendment covers camping on a vacant lot on the corner of …
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