It was a nice streak, Iowa. For the past 25-plus years your columnist has been watching Iowa politics, governors of …
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It was a nice streak, Iowa. For the past 25-plus years your columnist has been watching Iowa politics, governors of …
There is a new drug warrior in the White House, more cunning than the last. For the drug reform community, …
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So the country has moved on from Donald Trump. But in Iowa, some of the former president’s strongest backers and …
After Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol in a bid to undermine the 2020 election results, a few observers likened …
Political support for full marijuana legalization in Iowa has never been greater. Five state senators and 16 state representatives, all …
Iowans have made this a very boozy pandemic. Cheers. Maybe you saw the reports last month on Iowa alcohol sales …
Gov. Kim Reynolds lavished praise on Iowa’s public schools during her Condition of the State address Tuesday night, using a …
For a few hours last week, it seemed like elite Republicans finally had had enough of President Donald Trump and …
So now we’ve seen the consequences of Republicans crying ‘voter fraud!” where none exists. Sure, it was all fun and …
As Iowa gets redder, its state government is getting less transparent. There’s the Department of Public Health’s Infectious Disease Advisory …
President Donald Trump talked a lot about ‘we” during his rally that preceded violence in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. …
Even in a state with some of the nation’s worst drug prohibition laws, there still was plenty of action on …
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