Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is just a year away from being the longest serving governor in U.S. history. Over the course of his six terms, overspending hasn’t been a problem. Fiscal conservativism has...

With a campus as seamlessly integrated with the surrounding metropolitan area as the University of Iowa is with Iowa City, the two are almost synonymous. But in a surprising move, UI President Sally Mason...

Never in my life would I ever expect to see Bill Nye at the top of a discussion on NFL footballs; but alas, the famed science wiz did just that last week in wake of the DeflateGate controversy. As most...

Cars and guns are neck and neck for the No. 1 cause of death among those 25 years and younger. In 2011 (the most recent set of data), 32,351 people in the same age range died from bullets, according...

A new legislative year brings with it a chance to rethink controversial issues from the past. This sentiment resonated on Sunday when the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws met for...

There is a word tossed around in conversations about politics in the United States that seems to be, more than ever, struggling to find a place in our government: bipartisanship. Once an ideal that U.S....

“You can’t have Romney. He choked. You can’t have Bush. The last thing we need is another Bush,” Donald Trump announced from the podium at the inaugural Freedom Summit in Des Moines...

So I guess, with Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski reaching 1,000 wins in his career, he now truly is Coach K. Meanwhile, back at DeflateGate (which is where everyone who is anybody lives...

An initiative has been presented to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors with the goal of combating the problematic homelessness in the county that has not been solved by other programs. Phoebe Trepp,...

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has spearheaded the renaming of one of the Senate’s six subcommittees. The now-former “Subcommittee of the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights” omits...

It seems as if a lot of iconic, All-American individuals are falling out of the public’s good graces nowadays. First there was “7th Heaven” star Stephen Collins, who admitted to “inappropriate...

Most people who have spent time residing in big cities have been introduced to the services of ride-sharing. Companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar challenge the traditional taxi services by allowing...