An Iowa Supreme Court ruling now requires the state Public Health Department to allow both same-sex parents’ names to be listed on their children’s birth certificates. While this seems like a no-brainer...

“Equal is equal,” Camilla Taylor tells us in Monday’s issue of The Daily Iowan (“Court backs same-sex parents”). Taylor was speaking about the Iowa Supreme Court’s recent...

For Iowa Republicans, the recruitment process is well underway as the party seeks a challenger for Sen. Tom Harkin’s seat, which he will vacate at the end of 2014. The Democrats have tapped Rep....

People on both sides of the 21-only ordinance are probably tired of reading about the back-and-forth argument its measures have incited. Popular bars Martinis and Union are the latest downtown spots to...

You’re about to cross a major milestone in your life that not only is a great accomplishment but also now has earned you credibility in the “real world.” Congratulations. I can’t...

The sequestration was a package of budget cuts put into place that was thought too painful for Congress to allow so that it would be able to agree on a rational deficit-reduction plan. It included cuts...

Florence Nightingale, who is widely considered the founder of modern nursing, once said: “The progressive world is necessarily divided into two classes — those who take the best of what there is...

Turns out, there is a God. You can imagine the shock that I, a longtime and forever atheist, experienced upon discovering this. (And discovering that “forever” is a damn sight shorter than...

Proponents say we should build a bigger jail to federal standards in order to be able to reduce the numbers of inmates kept there. Using the expected $3 million gained from selling the old jail, that would...

In November 2012, when the original Johnson County Justice Center was presented to the public for a vote, the Editorial Board recommended that the voters reject the bond referendum. The original center...

Sexual assault can happen anywhere, anytime. UI senior Caitlin Palar was sexually assaulted right here, on this campus, in her own residence hall. But she didn’t report the assault; she really...

Members of the University of Iowa Women’s Resource Action Center and Rape Victim Advocacy Program participated in a rally and march through downtown Iowa City called Take Back the Night on Tuesday. The...