Provided you pay taxes in Iowa City, your money is propping up local business endeavors. The latest of these may be Marc Moen’s purchase and intended renovation of the space formerly occupied by Vito’s,...

“F*CK YOU, REPUBLICANS.” That’s how UI Professor Ellen Lewin responded to a mass e-mail from the UI College Republicans about their annual “Conservative Coming Out Week.” Her response to the...

Imagine that a business has three equal partners: one partner (the legislature) raises money, one partner (the governor) conducts business, and the third equal partner (the court system) makes sure that...

On April 14, police charged four women in Coralville with prostitution. The women, ranging in ages from 18 to 27, admitted to placing online ads in order to meet men in their hotel room for sex. There...

As your designated bro columnist at The Daily Iowan, I am here to offer the bro perspective on all things bro. This week: The 2011 Playboy Party School Rankings. For the first time in three years, the...

I am proud to be an attorney who appears in federal and state courts in most states in the Midwest. Because of my experience trying cases, I will discuss why it is necessary to have independent judges. Sometimes...

Iowa businesses are doing away with paper and jumping headlong into the digital age. Many eastern Iowa fixtures, including the Eastern Iowa Airport, are transitioning to a paper-free records system. However,...

Monday was, as most of us know, Tax Day, and most Americans are today probably still grumbling about their taxes being far too high. (We’ll note that they are not grumbling about having three extra...

I moved to Iowa City thinking that it was open minded and progressive. I’m involved in the gay community, I attend, and sing in the choir of, the Unitarian Universalist Society of Iowa City. I am proud...

The environmental symbiosis once enjoyed by tailgaters and Melrose Avenue homeowners has been irrevocably disturbed by a new memo on behalf of the Melrose Avenue Neighborhood Association that suggests,...

At Van Allen Hall, vehicles overwhelmingly crowd the available parking. Mopeds are piled upon one another, falling to the side like dominoes at the slightest movement. Many of these vehicles don’t have...

I was under the impression that panhandling in downtown Iowa City had been self-righteously curtailed, but yesterday, I saw that poor impoverished ragamuffin Marc Moen sitting wistfully in front of City...