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University of Iowa Journalism Professor Stephen Bloom may have unwittingly done Iowa a favor by penning an acid, inaccurate and condescending …
Prof. Stephen Bloom is truly the Michelangelo of hick-punching. Rarely has rural Iowa been smacked around as artfully as it is …
If you are using an older browser, you may be experiencing a muddled view of our revised Opinion online page. …
There’s an interesting (now revamped) online site, Capitol Words, created by the Sunlight Foundation, which tracks the words and phrases uttered by representatives …
If you believe the punditry, the out-of-touch label carries a $10,000 price tag. That’s how much Republican presidential hopeful Mitt …
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got nothing against Black Friday, or Small Business Saturday or Cyber Monday. Those quasi-official, shopping-extravaganza …
In the spirit of all the “What if..” pages popping up around here, The City of Iowa City has launched …
I can’t understand why so many Republicans are eager to throw away a perfectly good Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential …
In March, local voters will emerge from winter quarters to show us if we’ll have 10 more years of sales …
State leaders have played coy for months about how they plan to pay for ambitious education reforms. For weeks, Gov. …
Leave town for one lousy weekend and I miss seeing my first drone protest. Maybe you also missed it when …
Today’s print column, delayed by technical difficulty. Linda Seger first heard it about a month ago. She was dropping off …
If the 1960s brought us the idea that the personal is political, 2011 may well go down as the year …
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