One thing the state of Iowa has been proud of is the high-quality education students receive from kindergarten through the 12th grade. Postsecondary education that the state offers at all of its Board...

It never quite hit me how little I was getting out of the University of Iowa until I was just about graduated. I mean, I got a college degree, so there's that — but compared with the amount my family...

The Boy Scouts of America have every right to discriminate against whomever it chooses. This right was affirmed in a 2000 Supreme Court ruling that held that the Boy Scouts does indeed have the right to...

Last week, city officials decided to award Prairie Lights a $27,500 grant — a decision highlighting both the strengths and weaknesses of the city's policies in making economic decisions for our future. The...

There's a common misconception that the welfare system is bad because it takes my hard-earned money and gives it to people who didn't work for it. In reality, though, there are few groups that don't work...

I want you to join me in standing up and speaking out against violence, along with the Iowa Men's Action Network and the Men's Antiviolence Council. Reject the assumption that boys must be taught that...

Americans now have made repeatedly rewarded presidential candidates after they commit faux pas. Four years ago, we elected Barack Obama after he said he had visited "all 57 states," and last...

The Iowa City Public Library is a beautiful and relatively new building. It holds a wide variety of resources meant to attract all age groups with books, music, movies, and just a quiet place to do whatever...

Americans now have made repeatedly rewarded presidential candidates after they commit faux pas. Four years ago, we elected Barack Obama after he said he had visited "all 57 states," and last...

Some truly bad news appeared on the event horizon in this past week — that would be the news event horizon, not a "real" event horizon. Physicists know about the "real" event horizons,...

With the primary June 5 and the general election creeping up on us, it's time to look at how we can improve the system of voting from the ballot box on up. Voting, the one action that makes America a...

Oh, by the hammer of Thor: The state Board of Regents has finally woken up from its hypocritical, seemingly fraudulent, and dogmatic slumber of condescension and ignorance. It's fantastic the regents,...