By The Gazette Editorial Board — We need landfills but who really likes them? After all, they’re filled with garbage. …
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By The Gazette Editorial Board — We need landfills but who really likes them? After all, they’re filled with garbage. …
At first blush, a proposal to establish an in-state online poker network seems to make some sense. After all, advocates …
There’s a drive under way at the Statehouse to move water quality and watershed improvement efforts out of the Department …
Gazette Editorial Board — A Senate subcommittee last month wisely dropped a proposal to ban traffic cameras in Iowa. Last …
Gazette Editorial Board — A proposal to slash Iowa’s individual income tax rates by 20 percent is alive in the …
By Iowa City Press-Citizen ——– During last week’s City Council discussion of whether Iowa City should become a “sanctuary city,” …
By Mason City Globe Gazette ——- When we first heard of Iowa legislators approving online poker, we thought back to …
The Des Moines Register —— If you’ve lived in Iowa long, odds are good you’ve shaken hands with a presidential …
There’s optimism that this might finally be the year state legislators make it easier for Iowans who believe government has …
We see nothing wrong with the University of Iowa negotiating an exemption from its noncompete policy with Dr. Jill Meadows. …
IMPEACHMENT ABUSE: Several freshman Republican legislators have made partial good on their campaign promise: Impeach the remaining Iowa Supreme Court …
VA MILESTONE: The Iowa City Veterans Administration Health Care System just marked 10 years of the second round of its …
By The Gazette Editorial Board —— As the baby boomer generation moves into retirement over the next 19 years, the …
By The Gazette Editorial Board —— Hitting one business with a big tax increase to provide tax relief to other …
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