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Iowa Republican lawmakers want to send the Iowa Department of Natural Resources on a wild goose poop chase. A bill …
Gender identity was front and center at the Iowa Statehouse again this week as lawmakers advanced two bills to clean …
Republican candidate for governor Adam Steen likes to call himself the “faith guy,” and his recent political good fortune could …
Gov. Kim Reynolds may have introduced the perfect Republican legislative bill. It yanks away more local control, which Republicans love …
Last weekend St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids held a “legal observer training” to teach anti-ICE demonstrators to …
We need to teach new generations that appearance isn’t health
We don’t really have “school choice” in Iowa. Sure, we’re projected to spend $350 million next budget year to provide …
Republicans love big government, sometimes. They won’t hesitate to pass edicts telling schools what sort of history they must teach …
Don’t mess with people who live where it’s cold, on purpose.
The eyes of the country are on Iowa’s neighbors to the north as tensions over immigration enforcement reached a fever …
As an Iowan, and as someone raised in a family shaped by military service, I was deeply disappointed to hear …
Iowa Democrats’ direction for education: backward
Summit Carbon Solutions’ pipeline plan has undergone a metamorphosis, sort of like that guy in the Kafka book who turns …
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