The city’s once-per-decade charter review process was hamstrung from the start.
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The city’s once-per-decade charter review process was hamstrung from the start.
Survey results highlight widespread student experiences of racially or gender-motivated bullying.
Iowa is pushing people out instead of welcoming them in.
We have used this exact same playbook for illegal drugs and the results have been disastrous.
We have indoctrination factories with tax exempt status burdening students with debt.
Gov. Terry Branstad had announced that he would not seek re-election in 1998. It was the end of the Branstad era, or so we thought. (The ‘stache made a comeback in 2010.) His announcement set off lots of conjecture over who would be running for governor.
Actually, they don’t. And it’s disingenuous to insist that they do.
Iowa is calling off its sister-state relationship with Stavropol in the former Soviet Union. What did they do to us?
And effort to push the party to take a stand on pipeline projects failed.
Democrats and Republicans both support never-ending budget hikes for police. That’s a bad thing.
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ rebuttal to the State of the Union was a missed opportunity.
I’m old enough to have seen at least five largest tax cuts in Iowa history, each one sold as making Iowa more competitive.
She should state unequivocally that the Russian people are not our enemy.
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