The Sierra Club Beyond Coal campaign has accelerated its effort at the University of Iowa by advocating the university to stop burning coal in its district combined heat and Power Plant. This worthwhile...

Occupy Iowa City protesters have made the correct decision in signing a permit with the city government in order to establish a sensible relationship with authorities, but they continue to push their boundaries. By...

Caucus season is likely the best time to work for a daily newspaper in Iowa. There's plenty of news, web hits are high, and the national media are taking cues from us. However, it's also one of the most...

Maybe some of you have heard, but Swati Dandekar, the former state senator from District 18, accepted a position on Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad's Utilities Board. Obviously, this opens up her Senate seat,...

With recent changes in Linn County, the University of Iowa must try to extend its mental-health resources more than it does. The Linn County Board of Supervisors' approval of the first round of Mental...

Good news for college tipplers: George Washington's estate, which we know as Mount Vernon, has decided to reissue our much-revered first president's recipe for rye whiskey. Whoopee. Yes, our first president...

Just over a year ago, a woman said she was raped on the Pentacrest. The reported assault didn't occur in a dark alleyway or behind the closed doors of an apartment or dorm room as we often imagine. It...

Yes So what reasons could there possibly be for shutting down a federal department that helps kids get an education? This was one of the topics U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, spoke on in the IMU on Oct....

I was walking behind the personification of Iowa Republicans — decent butt, 6 out of 10 — yesterday and I saw it drop a piece a little piece of paper. I would've surely returned the document if I...

Iowa City is not conducive for new business startups. The primary reason for this, as I have studied over the past two years, is the local business community's complacence in supporting innovation. We...

Yes So the prime minister of England decides to come over to the United States and run for president. It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke because, well, it is one. But there are a lot of people...

There'll be a top-tier GOP candidate in Iowa City this evening to campaign and give a speech, but few are probably aware of who that candidate is. It's not Gov. Mitt Romney, and (thankfully) it's not...