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Nothing is easy in the Iowa Legislature. There are very few slam dunks. Lawmakers might create a tax credit for …
If any one of a half-dozen things had gone differently, Aplington-Parkersburg football coach Ed Thomas might still be alive today. …
(This is a periodic update on some good downtown/core neighborhood joints that survived the flood. I’ve urged people to spend dough at small businesses …
Ah, this renewed debate over who should and should not be allowed to carouse, responsibly of course, in Iowa City bars …
Gov. Chet Culver’s latest political problem strode through The Gazette’s front doors first thing Monday morning. Jonathan Narcisse, Des Moines newspaper publisher …
Folks were milling around after Thursday’s public hearing on Everclear when a bottle of the stuff was somehow bumped, crashed …
So the novella that was the City Council debate over where to build a new public library turned out the …
The city’s public library director isn’t a big fan of bus depots and the people who use them. Bob Pasicznyuk …
I bravely trekked through a frigid wind to the Crowne Plaza over the noon hour to see Mayor Ron Corbett’s State …
Just as soon as lawmakers figure out a way to enforce a ban on Driving While Stupid, we’ll have this …
“A person shall use common sense at all times when the person is operating a motor vehicle.” From an amendment …
Mayor Ron Corbett can’t even have breakfast without being served a steaming side of Yardy. “A guy came up to …
So will Iowa Republicans converge on Cedar Rapids just after the second anniversary of the flood to anoint their gubernatorial …
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