President-elect Joe Biden is considering executive action on student debt relief in hopes of stimulating the economy. The idea is …
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President-elect Joe Biden is considering executive action on student debt relief in hopes of stimulating the economy. The idea is …
‘Live with it,” is out. ‘This is serious!” is in. ‘If Iowans don’t buy into this, we lose,” Gov. Kim …
Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District sent two people to new member orientation in Washington, D.C., last week. The race in southeast …
What lessons should Republicans learn from the 2020 elections? On one hand, Republicans gained seats in the U.S. House and …
Back in the spring of 2017, your columnist humbly argued that Iowa Democrats might want to think about tapping a …
Iowa now has a road map for local governments to wind down the drug war. A Des Moines task force …
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds stood before reporters this week in a state flooding with COVID-19 and tossed us some paper …
If you want to reduce cases of police misconduct and racial bias, you can go a long way by simply …
So I arose on the morning after the election, after a short night’s sleep, and wrote a column arguing that …
With nail-biters across the country, Republicans and Democrats are looking for someone to blame for their narrow losses in the …
Tuesday was a good night for drugs. In more ways than one, probably. As Iowans calmed their election result anxieties …
Well, Iowa is now a bright red state. Congratulations, Republicans. The Iowa Legislature is redder. The congressional delegation is more …
Today marks 296 days until candidates in some Iowa cities can start filing paperwork for 2021 local elections. It might …
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