Last week, the University of Iowa made an excellent new addition to its current majors: environmental planning and policy. Beth Ingram, the assistant provost for undergraduate education, described this...

On Sept. 5 at approximately 3:54 p.m., as I walked along Clinton Street on my way home from work, another horridly dull and mildly depressing day behind me, I was jarred from my stupor by the sight of...

Nationwide, the housing market is showing signs of life — home sales rose in July rose by 2.3 percent over June and by 10.4 percent over July of last year. These gains came largely on the back of July’s...

Iowans are beginning to realize the very serious consequences of what has been the worst drought in Iowa history in many years and the fourth-driest July on global record. Currently, with so little corn...

Buried under the avalanche of alcohol-related controversies going on at the University of Iowa lies a nugget of positivity: Student cigarette smoking is at a 20-year low. Since 2009, cigarette use among...

Football season has returned to Iowa City and college campuses around the nation, bringing with it the thrill of competition and the spirit of camaraderie among the throngs who will flock to Kinnick Stadium...

This election season, there are a great many issues facing every American voter, and the choice between the two major political parties is so stark a contrast that many voters are concerned there is not...

I always like to pick a favorite stump catch phrase during election season. It makes for a good drinking game during a long convention keynote. But my favorite ridiculous stump isn’t Mitt Romney’s...

The University of Iowa College Republicans will set up shop on the Pentacrest every Monday and Tuesday in September as part of a wider push by the College Republican National Committee to increase participation...

City officials want to renew Iowa City’s Bicycle Friendly Community designation this winter, and they are enthusiastically hoping to move up from the town’s current bronze level to a silver-level...

We campaign in poetry, Mario Cuomo used to say, but we govern in prose. That was how the then-New York governor explained the gap between his soaring speeches and the more prosaic product of his government,...

In 1974, I was elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat serving a predominately Republican district in northwest Iowa. I served 12 years, and during that time, Republicans and Democrats still...