Staff Editorials

An overarching mandate by the government forcing all Americans to get vaccinated would be unenforceable but employers are well within their rights to make vaccination a condition of employment.

ConnectCR project seemed like a long shot, but it’s now poised to become a major destination.

Reynolds tried to skirt the political burden of running up more than a quarter-million dollars in expenses for an out-of-state project.

Recently published U.S. Census figures provide challenges and opportunities for Iowa.

City officials say they’d like the county’s help. County leaders say they’ll consider it if the city requests help. Then, nothing gets done.

Marion leaders are reluctant to move forward on instituting a citizen review board of police. We hope they reconsider.

Amid these troubling developments, Gov. Kim Reynolds and her administration seem to be operating in an alternate reality.

Iowa students will soon go back to schools and universities and the state has no serious plan to keep COVID-19 in check.

The chilling effect this will spawn is obvious. Records custodians will be more reluctant than ever to fulfill records requests in a timely manner.

Iowa’s Duke Slater was a trailblazer for Black athletes at a time when Black Americans faced widespread state-sponsored discrimination

The increase in cases comes after Iowa lowered basically all of the state’s defenses against coronavirus.

Blood centers will have to “perform above projection” to meet the need, representatives say. They have an urgent need for all blood types.