Staff Editorials

The sales tax has helped municipalities tackle projects that otherwise would have been delayed or discarded.

Members of the Cedar Rapids school board are abdicating their democratic duty to be responsive to the public.

The governor is attempting to score political points by exploiting a humanitarian crisis at the Mexican border.

Endorsements are not intended to sway the outcomes but instead to give readers perspective and get candidates on the record about important issues.

Climate change is well underway and it’s costing us dearly in Cedar Rapids.

Homecoming season is largely about longstanding traditions – parades, football games, marching bands, spirit days and dances, to name a …

To address disparities in school-based policing, administrators are recommending 14 changes to the agreement between the city and the district

A federal judge this week temporarily barred the state from enforcing a law passed under cover of darkness in the …

The number of COVID patients in Iowa hospitals fell to double-digits this summer but has been rising since mid-July and now exceeds 500.

Iowa is shortchanging its state parks, even as Iowans’ desire to get outdoors is making them more popular than ever.

However you feel about school resource officers, this is the kind of decision that ought to be explained in an open meeting, not in private conversations among administrators.

The party in power could redraw lines to its own benefit, a tactic known as gerrymandering whereby politicians pick their voters, instead of the other way around.