Staff Editorials

Advocates feel misled about the local government’s new pandemic relief program.

Latest list of Iowa’s impaired waters provides more evidence of our failure to improve water quality.

It’s another reminder that we need to have a serious conversation about decriminalizing marijuana in Iowa.

Iowa Republicans have some strange ideas about private property rights.

Our experience from last November shows why this option would be useful.

Iowa Republicans see trans kids as a problem, a target and a political opportunity.

We hope this latest hubbub doesn’t lead to a situation where school committees are flooded with frivolous claims.

In absence of smarter rules to limit the environmental impacts of farming, Iowans should be wary of new lifelines for the ethanol industry.

The state will dedicate more than $21 million to the Rapid Rehousing Project under the Iowa Finance Authority.

State parks generate $8.7 billion in consumer spending that supports 8,300 jobs and provides $649 million in state and local tax revenue. And yet, we can’t find the money to fix up rangers’ homes.

Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses face some tough questions.

Local governments should have to show data justifying the need for cameras