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After a week away, I’m back at the corner of Third Avenue and Fifth Street SE. Sifting through e-mail and …
Every dad may be different, but in some ways they’re all the same. Dads take care of you. They are …
I got an e-mail from Sister Mary McCauley this week, thanking me for a recent column about Sholom Rubashkin’s acquittal …
For the first time, the U.S. government’s annual worldwide human trafficking report included trafficking data from home, of a sort. …
There’s plenty of scientific evidence that shows unstructured play time is a critical part of child development. But every parent …
I’ll be gone for a week, resting, relaxing etc. If you haven’t yet made your own summer travel plans, I hope …
I heard from several readers this week who also were disappointed in a Black Hawk County jury’s decision to acquit …
Fall campaign, Day 1. It all started out so nicely. Gov. Chet Culver and his wife Mari arrived around midday at Waypoint …
“Daddy, have they started yet?” My daughter Tess, 8, during the bottom of the second inning at last night’s Kernels …
Beth Dalbey at The Iowa Independent has a very good post on the awkward post-primary dance between winner Terry Branstad and runner-up …
LOSERS Culture Warriors – The Iowa Family Policy Center bet all its chips on runner-up Bob Vander Plaats and overplayed …
Let me get this straight: Labor and immigration laws were routinely, you might say systematically, violated at the Agriprocessors meat …
Here comes the lug. It’s so on. Gov. Chet Culver will hit the road Wednesday to tout a state-funded preschool …
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