It's 2012; Iowa has debated a government-transparency bill since 2006. But if Iowans wish to check out their state's public records on the Internet today, they'll feel as though they're in 1995. After...

Rick Santorum deserves a lot of criticism. He's wrong on a lot of issues, often to a dangerous degree. But the Republican's opposition to all-but-mandatory higher education isn't a place where he ought...

The Library nightclub in downtown Iowa City has recently earned its buzz-worthy status by becoming the first bar in Iowa City to utilize part of the 21-ordinance that allows patrons under the age of 21...

It was 1:30 p.m., otherwise known as Burge rush half-hour. The line to the dining hall stretched as far as the eye could see looking up from a text message. The huddled masses of dorm-freshmen flooded...

In these days of waiting (and waiting) (then doing some more waiting) for the baseball season to start — and pondering what the Red Sox are going to do for a shortstop, having traded theirs away for...

The 2013 Defense Department budget cuts military spending by $487 billion over 10 years, which translates into eliminating six Air Force fighter squadrons, cutting 16 ships from the Navy, and reducing...

YES Under no circumstance, would I ever support legislation that threatens to make pariahs of individuals for something beyond their control — whether it is ethnicity, creed, or HIV status. And it is...

No matter the decision, Iowa's ethnic-discrimination case will succeed in bringing to light a very important and seldom-discussed issue: that bias still exists, whether conscious or subconscious. Judge...

When reading the article, "Occupy Iowa City will get the boot" (DI, Feb. 14), the other day, a flood of memories and emotions stirred within me. I remember the first day of Occupy Iowa City....

No A proposal in the Iowa Legislature to increase the minimum wage from the national rate of $7.25 an hour to $10 an hour over three years is dangerous and should not be allowed in a fledgling economy. As...

One weekend my friends and I made plans to hike a volcano. We asked our tico parents — our guardians while studying abroad here in Costa Rica — how long it would take to walk to the top and got...

After an eternal string of Republican "debates," we are left with a serial adulterer (former House Speaker Newt Gingrich), an individual who has a racist past (Rep. Ron Paul), a severely religious...