The Landfill fire is not a problem to be ignored. It is dangerous and expensive and is causing a reasonable amount of concern in the Iowa City area. By now, many are already aware that the reason this...

When it comes to making the many right moves needed to successfully build a new building, Iowa City developer Marc Moen is certainly an expert. This can easily be seen as the Moen Group, the organization...

I'd like to give a nice golf clap — heck, let's make it a round of applause — for Sister Margaret A. Farley, a theological scholar who wrote the book Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. This...

Every year, thousands of African students graduate from American universities. Some of them go back to Africa to work with their governments or to work in the private sector; some stay in the United States...

With talks of tuition hikes at the University of Iowa and unprecedented budget cuts for the University of Northern Iowa, it's clear that the state Board of Regents' universities must be wise when spending...

Back in my running days (don't laugh — I used to be faster than you; but then, so did Coach Wiz), I used to run out Melrose Avenue far enough that it became IWV Road, which meant that at one point, I...

As someone who believes that reasonable people can avoid litigation through honest negotiation, it is with great regret that I must file a lawsuit against the University of Iowa and the state Board of...

The underage drinkers know the Iowa City police all too well, always trying to spot an officer in the bars doing a random check. A person can never know when the police will enter the underage drinker's...

All right, obviously, there are a few things we shouldn't forget going into summer — I know it's difficult because all I really want to do is sit back and enjoy a nice summer shandy or maybe a mojito:...

After years of benign neglect — neglect that was anything but benign for the victims — bullying has finally moved to the top of the school-climate agenda. Today, 49 states and the District of Columbia...

I'm one of those people who gets irritated by poor writing. I get annoyed when someone writes "to" instead of "too" or when a friend ends a sentence with a preposition. Call me old-fashioned....

It is perfectly fine for ideology to play a role in the debate over what government sets out to do, but once that debate ends and it comes time to make policy, data should pave the way forward. I have...