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The power is out, so you can’t turn on the TV or radio, or even open the refrigerator. All your …
I wanted a vacation away from politics, but I didn’t get it. I took last week off from writing columns …
I am sitting in a hotel with two children and a dog. We’ve been driven from our home in Cedar …
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, and we definitely have, is to get our daughter Tess moved into …
Just weeks after a White House report declared Iowa a hot spot for the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Kim …
I’m trying, as many of us are these days, to learn to appreciate sitting with stillness. To take the uncertainty …
Todd Dorman So Gov. Kim Reynolds resumed her twice-weekly coronavirus pandemic briefings this week. They’re back by unpopular demand. Since …
Gov. Kim Reynolds’ public approval rating for how she has handled the new coronavirus pandemic is the lowest of any …
As the nation grapples with complicated issues of racial justice, so too does Iowa’s third-largest political party. The Libertarian Party …
Earlier this summer, a debate emerged over the future of some art and monuments at the Iowa Statehouse. Activists rightly …
It worked so well Republicans had to trash it. County auditors in Iowa who received absentee ballot request forms from …
A few hundred people gathered in Marion this past weekend to proclaim the obvious – police lives matter. The ‘Back …
Americans have been dismayed to see ‘secret police” snatching up political dissidents off the street and threatening to shoot would-be …
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