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Behind his folksy veneer there apparently is a burning desire to put people in jail.
Our Statehouse Santas are talking about eliminating the state’s personal and corporate income taxes. Ho, ho, ho, how will that go?
Next year, don’t be surprised if you receive a mailer from a Republican lawmaker or GOP candidate espousing their support for public schools. But they’ll probably leave out the part about wanting to put teachers and administrators in jail.
Mayoral candidate failed to consider how aggressive partisanship would alienate voters
You can be sure Iowa will be at the forefront to ban abortion altogether if Roe and Casey are tossed out.
Politicians in Washington have an idea to bail out America’s struggling local news industry. More than $1.5 billion in tax credits to journalism companies over five years is included in the “Build Back Better” package, under consideration in the U.S. Senate.
So the porches beat the dive bars. And it wasn’t even close.
You know Elf on the Shelf. Get ready for jailer on a tractor-trailer.
Proposed federal tax on e-cigarettes could be deadly.
Peng Shuai has been “disappeared” by the Chinese Communist Party that holds a monopoly on government power and financial success …
For those of us who lived it, the consequences are still keeping us up at night.
The food scene in Iowa City is a travesty for culturally and ethnically diverse students
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