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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

More physicians needed in rural areas

DI EDITORIAL BOARD February 19, 2013

The state of Iowa is bleeding — and there are not enough doctors to stop it. Iowa has one of the worst physician-to-resident ratios in the nation, with neighboring states Wisconsin, Minnesota, and...

Elliot: No trash talk here

BEAU ELLIOT February 19, 2013

So now, the incredibly intelligent and all-knowing City Council wants us to hide our outdoor garbage containers. Perhaps indoors. All to save the children in Darfur, of course. (Saving the children in...

Minimum wage should be raised

DI EDITORIAL BOARD February 18, 2013

President Obama’s proposal, in last week’s State of the Union Address, to raise the national minimum wage to $9 per hour and allow it to grow along with inflation has rekindled the national...

Ponnada: Going postal

SRI PONNADA February 18, 2013

The U.S. Postal Service has been having financial troubles for quite a while. But when the service reached its limit in September 2012 of $15 billion set by Congress, it was evident that major changes...

Overton: Drinking is not the only option

JON OVERTON February 18, 2013

They race around the Pedestrian Mall, giving one another piggyback rides, they stumble around, trip and fall in deafening fits of laughter, and look like they’re having the time of their lives. Drunk...

Koons: America is a gun country

GUEST COLUMN February 18, 2013

America is a gun country, and that won’t change. America won sovereignty when ordinary citizens grabbed rifles and rose up against the greatest military of the time. America perfected its...

Mason’s plans after audit adequate

DI EDITORIAL BOARD February 15, 2013

At a meeting with the state Board of Regents on Feb. 6, the University of Iowa presented an internal audit discussing allegations concerning former Athletics Department staff member Peter Gray. An audit...

Tilly: A modest proposal

ZACH TILLY February 15, 2013

If you watched the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, and you really stuck with it, you probably remember when President Obama pointed out 102-year-old Desiline Victor, a Florida woman who waited...

Marks: Olympics wrestle with profitability

GUEST COLUMN February 15, 2013

Our university finds itself in the midst of shattering trauma, a snide and tumultuous loss of identity, a disastrous crisis so severe that our own Daily Iowan has labeled it a fate “worse than death”:...

Government not passive provider, market appeaser

DI EDITORIAL BOARD February 14, 2013

President Obama used his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday evening to outline an ambitious second-term agenda built, in large part, on campaign promises to boost economic growth and put unemployed...

Richson: One more rising

BRIANNE RICHSON February 14, 2013

Today, a majority of campus will either celebrate or actively avoid Valentine’s Day, a holiday that has evolved into the epitome of commercialized love. Others, however, will partake in a different...

Schmidt: Unsympathetic, not wrong

GRAYSON SCHMIDT February 14, 2013

Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle was an American hero. He was considered to be the greatest sniper in U.S. history, and he was so deadly that the Iraqi militants had a bounty on his head. The man once coined...