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As we wait to see which hyperpartisan bill clear a legislative funnel deadline this week, it’s remarkable that bipartisanship isn’t …
Even one instance of uttered hate speech against an individual can have detrimental, long-lasting effects on a person’s stability and ability to navigate life normally.
There’s a lot of pleasure to be found in the nearly 1,600-page state government reorganization bill, and most of it …
Around this time eight years ago, the state of Iowa began crawling with what a few of us call “presidential …
Iowa is a state that can’t say no to the ethanol industry. And that leaves some Republican lawmakers in a …
Under the Golden Dome of Wisdom, it’s all about protecting the children. That’s why Republicans approved spending billions of dollars …
Only thing weirder than “keeping [X] weird” is accepting shrinking cities
After a few years of red-faced diatribes at the school board and the Statehouse, parents horrified by their children learning …
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has been wielding the current powers of her office for just more than a month, …
If Gov. Kim Reynolds gets her way, and she usually does, Iowa’s personal income taxes will be eliminated by the …
Last Saturday, national Democrats finally ratified their plans to end Iowa Democrats’ right to go first in the presidential nominating …
We’ve heard plenty from Republican politicians assailing Linn-Mar’s support policies for transgender students and pursuing legislation to make them illegal. …
The introduction of Senate File 167 is dangerous — not only to children, but in the encouragement of hard labor at earlier ages for the sake of filling worker shortages
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