Two presidential-nomination contenders held events in eastern Iowa this week: Republican Michele Bachmann and Democrat Harry Braun. You almost definitely heard about the first, but unless you picked up...

YES Legislators can’t be accountable to the people if the people don’t know what they are doing. The Iowa Senate should grant public-record requests of correspondence to and from state legislators’...

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., in announcing her “official” entry into the Republican presidential-nomination scrum in Waterloo Monday, stressed (and stressed and stressed and … well, you get the...

U.S. House Resolution 304, sponsored by Reps. Robert Dold, R-Ill., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and HR 306, sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Edward Royce, R-Calif., were introduced earlier...

University of Iowa officials were quick to endorse the results of a campus student-health survey by the National College Health Association, claiming the data indicated the success of initiatives such...

Now that summer is upon us, many are wondering how long the trends promulgated by the so-called “Arab Spring” will continue. Will last-ditch efforts to oust dictatorial regimes fizzle by July, or will...

Earlier this month, college students invited by the state Board of Regents traveled to Des Moines to protest increasing tuition. The cause of this, at least according to these students, was the cutting...

The Iowa Legislature is in a time crunch as it struggles to work out a budget deal that will satisfy both Republicans and Democrats — and property taxes are at the heart of the partisan divide. Tax...

If I could, I would bathe in confetti. It would make me feel like a champion. I love confetti. In fact, if I were able to find someone willing, and some simple way of tidying the mess, I would have someone...

When former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty spoke at the “deficit-free America” summit hosted by Strong America Now on June 18, he, like most speakers, pledged to cut spending and balance the budget. And...

With a looming federal deficit and bipartisan support for fiscal restraint growing in Washington, it’s become clear that now is the best possible time to implement substantial agricultural reform. But...

When considering profitable or worthwhile international business ventures, it’s always important to hedge your bets. So why not buy up 800,000 acres of “abandoned refugee camps” in western Tanzania...