County officials are debating whether they want a BearCat or an MRAP. The task now should be ensuring public oversight, which currently is nonexistent.
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County officials are debating whether they want a BearCat or an MRAP. The task now should be ensuring public oversight, which currently is nonexistent.
In November, voters in Linn County and the Cedar Rapids metro will be picking winners in some barn-burning ballot battles.
Cultural appropriation is a perennially difficult subject. However, utilizing symbols of a particular group is not always cultural appropriation.
Space tycoons will undoubtedly benefit human flourishing in their race to space
The Biden administration reportedly worried refugees from Afghanistan would cause a political backlash. So far, that’s not happening.
Iowa Republicans are blaming President Joe Biden for the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan. They’re partly right.
#bossbabe has become a trademark of predatory network marketing schemes
If you don’t think this is important, you’re obviously not one of the nation’s leading vexillologists.
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.
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