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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Pedestrians cross Clinton St. and enter the Pedestrian Mall in Downtown Iowa City on Monday June 27, 2016.

Armstrong: Homeless Hawkeyes in the future?

March 6, 2017

By Dot Armstrong [email protected] The University of Iowa dominates the center of Iowa City. Its campus extends across the river, with buildings of all shapes and sizes sprawling toward...

Dugan: Hollow research for empty conclusions

Dugan: Hollow research for empty conclusions

March 6, 2017

By Jack Dugan [email protected] In a post-truth world in which all the news is fake and social media are a primary method of information consumption, cognitive dissonance is an unfortunate resolve...

Williams: What party of FDR?

Williams: What party of FDR?

March 3, 2017

By Dan Williams [email protected] More likely than not, you have heard or will hear calls for a “return to the party of FDR” from liberals desperately trying to recover their party’s dignity...

Employees use a cash register at Cortado Coffee & Cafe on S. Clinton st. on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. Businesses all over Johnson County will be impacted by the change in minimum wage. (The Daily Iowan/Lily Smith)

Smith: All I’ll get from college is debt

March 2, 2017

By Wylliam Smith [email protected] College is expensive. That is as clear as the sky is blue. But in the wise words of my mother, “Education isn’t free, so get a job.” On the University of...

Coltrain: Moonlight’s win illuminates a new road for Liberty City and its varied inhabitants

Coltrain: Moonlight’s win illuminates a new road for Liberty City and its varied inhabitants

March 2, 2017

Travis Coltrain [email protected] Moonlight’s monumental Oscar win over La La Land for Best Picture hit home for this Daily Iowan reporter. Hailing from Miami, I spent most of my youth just...

President Donald Trump looks around the room at the 2015 Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on May 16, 2015. (The Daily Iowan/Sergio Flores)

Pillard: President uses of minority groups to push agenda

March 2, 2017

by Logan Pillard [email protected] Trump’s address to a joint Congress on Tuesday night has been viewed as oddly presidential by pundits and celebrated as a change of tide from his 3 a.m. tweets...

University of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium on Stadium Drive on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. The University of Iowa is considering spending $100,000 to renovate a portion of the stadium. (The Daily Iowan/Anthony Vazquez)

Lane: Money from sports not the UI solution

February 28, 2017

by Joe Lane [email protected] Last week, the University of Iowa announced its plan to compensate for the $8 million reduction in state appropriations caused by a budget shortfall. The plan — which...

University of Iowa Student Government Senator Alex Bare speaks during a discussion over S.S.R. #25 on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. S.S.R. #25 is an opposition bill against Iowa state Senator Jake Chapman's SF256 which would allow weapons on Regent funded Universities. (The Daily Iowan/Joseph Cress)

Custardo: College campuses are no place for firearms

February 28, 2017

By Katrina Custardo [email protected] In the state Legislature, a bill has been introduced in the Republican-dominated House that broadly changes the current gun laws in Iowa. These changes...

Grissel: Dems search for unity

Grissel: Dems search for unity

February 28, 2017

by Hanna Grissel [email protected] On Feb. 25, the Obama administration’s former Labor Secretary, Tom Perez, beat out Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., 235-200 in a close race for the position of...

Elliot: Bonnie & Clyde & us

Elliot: Bonnie & Clyde & us

February 28, 2017

By Beau Elliot [email protected] Well, once again, Bonnie & Clyde died in a fusillade of whatever that was Sunday evening in the river of the Hollywood of Our Imagination. It was in ultra slow...

Rosario: Poor students are not ‘worth-less’

Rosario: Poor students are not ‘worth-less’

February 28, 2017

By Isabella Rosario [email protected] Faced with declining enrollment and an inequitable state funding formula, the Davenport School District’s fight for equal funding in Iowa has been an...

Weigel: Stop feeding the beast

Weigel: Stop feeding the beast

February 28, 2017

By Zach Weigel [email protected] Donald Trump is more than our president; he is also a king when it comes to publicity, thanks to years of basking in the public limelight, a lavish supply of money,...