TOP-LEVEL WRITER: Northeast Iowa native Tyler Lechtenberg, a speech writer for the Obama White House, compiled the remarks that first …
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TOP-LEVEL WRITER: Northeast Iowa native Tyler Lechtenberg, a speech writer for the Obama White House, compiled the remarks that first …
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By The Gazette Editorial Board — When Jack Roeder signed on, “we became even more excited” about Prospect Meadows, Linn …
By The Gazette Editorial Board — By now, you’ve likely heard about a University of Iowa professor’s profane response to …
By The Gazette Editorial Board — Cedar Rapids voters’ narrow defeat of the 20-year extension of the local-option sales tax …
By The Des Moines Register — Different year, same story: The cost of college is going up. Recently, the state …
By Muscatine Journal — In November, voters seemed to send a pretty clear message: Government is too big, it spends …
By Sioux City Journal —- Public confusion seems the one consistent theme with respect to new Sioux City property assessments …
By Quad-City Times —- We expect city leaders in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, would have preferred to keep secret the civil …
By The Gazette Editorial Board — As the referendum on extending the local-option sales tax slipped into narrow defeat in …
By The Gazette Editorial Board — We caught him. Nearly a decade after he was blamed with orchestrating the horrific …
A CHAMPION’S CHALLENGE: The Iowa Women’s Leadership Conference in Coralville drew an overflow audience for its keynote speaker event. No …
STUDENT DEBT: Yes, average student loan debt for Iowa State University graduates dropped slightly from 2008-09 to 2009-10, the latest …
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