On Thursday, members of the UI College Republicans offered their solution to job creation in the first twice-monthly exchange. Today, the University Democrats respond. The middle class is key. The best...

Last year, the University of Iowa collected</a> more than $140,000 in dorm fines from students charged with illegal possession of drugs and alcohol. There were 104 illicit-drug fines included in...

Air quality shouldn't be a political bargaining chip. Just before Labor Day weekend, President Obama announced that he would tell the EPA not to implement its new proposed air-quality standards, citing...

Beginning today, the DI will run a twice-monthly University of Iowa Democrat/Republican exchange in which both sides will answer one prompt, due to the editor on the same day. President Obama is scheduled...

Another representative, contracted rather than elected, will prove beneficial for Iowa City. Iowa City City Manager Tom Markus has proposed hiring a lobbyist who would help represent the city to state...

At a campaign event in New Hampshire over the weekend, 2012 caucus contender Gov. Rick Perry called for "strategic fencing." Of course, my first thought was, "Finally, a viable presidential...

As a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan reflecting on my time in service, I'm not sure why the United States continues to fight the War on Terror. The horrible terrorist acts on 9/11 were not because of...

Yes As a colleague of mine commented so poignantly, it’s a historically egalitarian issue by nature, a simple matter, in principle, of the haves and the have-nots. Why should we, these huddling masses...

Good job? Good luck. Good night. Not to rain on your Labor Day parade or anything. Yeah, I know, for many Americans, Labor Day means gathering your grill friends and your girlfriends and, presumably,...

I’ve been with KRUI for more than four years now, and I have the pleasure of serving as general manager, a position I will relinquish in a month because of increased time constraints. At KRUI, we work...

This Labor Day, the state’s under- and unemployed can look forward to investing their futures in the Iowa Workforce Development’s equivalent of a Redbox. On Sept. 5, 1882, the Central Labor Union...

Marcellus Andrews was brutally beaten to death on Aug. 19 in Waterloo. Let this remind us of the uphill battle we still face here in Iowa. Whether you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or straight...