Do you have a child in college? Is he or she renting an apartment or house? If so, have you reviewed the lease your child signed with the property's owners? If the answer to the first two questions is...

If you haven't heard, the state Board of Regents is having a hard time coming up with funding for the three state universities. On March 21, the Iowa House Appropriations Committee passed a proposed...

Vaunted as being one of the most intellectually serious members of Congress, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is again in the spotlight with the release of his fiscal 2013 budget. Not only does...

Welcome back to March. It missed you, too. (Well, OK; it was only for one day. But it was nice to see March again. For a day. Kind of like it's nice to see an old girlfriend again. For a day. (Not to...

Chances are pretty good you've enjoyed at least one meal today before reading the words here in front of you. Because in large measure of generations of hard-working farm families, Americans continue to...

Four days ago, the globe celebrated World Water Day 2012, and international governmental agencies slapped each other on their respective backs with congratulatory clinks of champagne glasses echoing in...

America has been posed with a choice. As Republicans put it, a choice between competing "visions" of America. Nowhere are the two parties more diametrically opposed then when it comes to how...

The renewal of the Violence Against Women Act remains uncertain because the majority of Republicans in the U.S. Senate continue to vocalize concerns against the new draft. Along with Sen. Orrin Hatch,...

Liberals regularly contend that conservatives are either unwilling, or unable, to acknowledge empirical evidence that exposes core conservative arguments to be patently false. However, two recent arguments...

At the height of the controversy over the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act debate, critics of the bills described them as an assault on Internet freedom and the subversion...

After a debate on Tuesday, the Iowa City City Council is slated to take up a series of new laws that would make the entire city consistent with one zoning ordinance that places limits on the number of...

With the plague of tabloid journalism and the era of biased media outlets, there has never been a better time to be good at what I do. Publications you see at the grocery store claiming 'Obama is God'...