As President Obama’s job creating project, “Advanced Manufacturing Partnership,” sweeps across the U.S., Americans buzz that deeming to the vague concept of free trade is the biggest joke they played...

Moped users under the age of 18 should be required to have driver’s licenses and moped permits before operating in Iowa City. With increasingly high gas prices, it comes as no surprise we are beginning...

Hello freshmen! You’re looking young this year. Or, wait — am I old? Do I look old? No? Because I can’t grow facial hair in any capacity? Oh, that makes sense. Welcome to the University of Iowa....

Three Iowa City schools have recently been designated as "in need of assistance" under the federal No Child Left Behind law. There is now a total of nine schools in need of assistance in the...

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...