On the campaign trail in Decorah Monday, President Obama gently chastised Democrats. "Sometimes there are those in my party who will defend everything, even if it's not working," the president...

Watching two intellectually challenged Ken dolls with "executive-style hair" — Mitt Romney and Rick Perry — preparing to fight it out reminds me how much I miss Dan Quayle. Oddly enough,...

YES Before the results and subsequent outcomes of the Republicans' Ames Straw Poll were made available, I gave little attention to its media veneration. I thought the poll was useless and naïve way of...

An unidentified young woman delivered this line to me out the window of a shiny Honda Civic on Madison Street while I was biking home. Drivers such as this critic of mine, who rarely understand that biking...

When Bay Area Rapid Transit officials shut down cell-phone service on the train platforms last week, they believed they were averting a disruptive protest. Their actions also triggered a number of questions...

Corporations — including Walmart, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Kraft Foods — are helping to write bills proposed in the Iowa House of Representatives. The American Legislative Exchange Council is a...

It's nearing the end of July, and all those who didn't renew their current leases are bustling about Iowa City, gathering their belongings and preparing to move into their new homes on Aug. 1, the traditional...

Monday's guest opinion by D.M. Seay poses many troubling questions. It does a great job of raising the issue about the treatment of the chronically mentally ill and the aging mentally ill — not only...

Democratic presidential candidate Harry Braun's solution to the nation's problems is a constitutional amendment only 26 words long: Enacting this as the 28th Amendment would effectively institute direct...

As debt ceiling negotiations sit deadlocked, the economy continues to sputter on the home front. Recently, a Roberts Dairy plant in Iowa City closed its doors for good, costing nearly 50 workers their...

Even if you can't see or taste it, that doesn't mean it's not there: mercury, methane, ethylene glycol (antifreeze), and myriad other chemicals and dangerous compounds are floating along Iowa wind currents...