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Gazette Editorial Board — Iowa lawmakers created the Iowa Public Information Board amid much fanfare about the importance of transparency …
By The Gazette Editorial Board —- We’ve long argued that the decision to use traffic-enforcement cameras should be a local …
FUNNEL CASUALTY: A measure that would have beefed up campaign finance disclosure laws governing so-called independent expenditures failed to clear …
By The Gazette Editorial Board —- Iowa legislators have done more than pass an education reform bill; they’ve passed two. …
By The Gazette Editorial Board —- Lawmakers are back again with a proposal to tweak Iowa’s 35-year-old bottle bill. It’s …
Gazette Editorial Board — LISTENING: We don’t know whether four Eastern Iowa Girl Scout camps should be sold because of …
Gazette Editorial Board — NARROW-MINDED TACTIC: Opponents of a housing subdivision proposed for rural Johnson County, off Newport Road, certainly …
Gazette Editorial Board — Editor’s note: One in a series of editorials on poverty, one of The Gazette Editorial Board’s …
By The Gazette Editorial Board —- What’s “public” about Iowa Public Radio? Even though the organization has received more than …
Gazette Editorial Board — Ice jams in March along the Cedar River above Cedar Rapids’ 5-in-1 dam are not unusual. …
DEATH RATE DOWN: The breast cancer death rate in Iowa declined 40 percent from 1992 to 2010, according to the …
PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE: From 2000 through 2011, the annual number of deaths in Iowa linked to prescription pain reliever overdose …
The Gazette Editorial Board —— Yet angst in the wind industry grew in 2012 as Congress fumed and fussed about …
By The Gazette Editorial Board —- The path taken by state lawmakers seeking to place more public information behind a …
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