The imagined danger posed by Black people existing remains a box office smash, turning out voters, consumers, and vigilantes year after year after bloody year.
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The imagined danger posed by Black people existing remains a box office smash, turning out voters, consumers, and vigilantes year after year after bloody year.
Rural households could be empowered to decide what broadband provider to purchase from.
In a surprise to no one who’s paying attention, the doomsayers in the Democratic Party were wrong. Weeks after the law went into effect, it turns out the government still is running a lot of background checks on Iowa gun buyers.
Gov. Kim Reynolds trusts Iowans to do the right thing. But gather some of those Iowans together, call them a school board and they clearly cannot be trusted.
According to the CDC, 99 percent of people dying of COVID-19 today are unvaccinated.
Iowa’s opioid strategy might be backfiring. The crackdown on pain pills by doctors and federal bureaucrats is contributing to America’s overdoses crisis.
Last August’s derecho showed how fragile our society truly can be.
A pastor styles himself as a truth-telling firebrand whom “liberals” fear and conspire against
So I scored an interview with the Gulf of Mexico. I walked down to the edge of the water, gentle surf splashing over my bare feet. A fever of stingrays glided by close to shore. I told the gulf I had some questions.
“If there is no available affordable child care, you can’t work — and more often than not, child care continues to fall within the responsibility of women.”
Police in Iowa are defending their use of tactical gear and weapons in drug busts.
Gov. Kim Reynolds and her fellow red-state governors aren’t advocating for the one thing that would help — drastically increasing legal immigration.
There hasn’t been any meaningful change in chemical makeup regulation but producers have responded to consumer concern nonetheless
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