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Yesterday, we learned that Gov.Terry Branstad asked/demanded that the president and president pro tem of the Iowa Board of Regents renounce …
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I said I’d extend kudos to the first presidential hopeful who wadded up The Family Leader’s “Marriage Vow” and tossed …
On many summer days, my mom would go to the grocery store and I would head for the public library. …
I met Alison Owings years ago, when she was just starting to research a book about contemporary American Indian lives. …
Here we are, fat and getting fatter. According to the annual “F as in Fat” report, released last week, 28 …
Bob Vander Plaats tells the Christian Broadcasting Networkthat his group, the Family Leader, is rolling out a 14-point marriage pledge …
Ed Tibbetts of the Quad-City Times reports on an apparent deal to end ethanol subsidies as we know them: Key …
There is a midsummer haze hanging around the prospects for a revote on the one-cent, local-option sales tax. After the …
Today is International Kissing Day? Why not. In honor of the event, here are some kissy facts from Sheril Kirshenbaum, …
It’s for good reason that federal law requires child protective workers to look to relatives first if parents are unable …
So I was reading down the list of new appointees to state boards and commissions released by Gov. Terry Branstad …
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