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...

Breadbasket or gas station? Iowa’s mythic role as the former would intimate that our job is to provide food for the country’s population, not to power the country’s vehicles. And while biofuels...

Before I shut my eyes to take a nap with my dad, I wrapped my hand around the plastic heart-shaped necklace I’d bought for him. I figured this would ensure a wakeful tug if he got up to leave, but when...

“The need for ‘economic growth’ that we hear so much about these days will be achieved, not by government harnessing the nation’s economic forces but by emancipating them,” wrote the late Sen....

Is social conservatism inextricably linked to fiscal conservatism? That’s the claim likely presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann has been making of late, including in a speech at the IMU earlier...

While the last-minute budget deal reached onFriday night temporarily avoided a government shutdown, the battle over the federal budget is far from over. Next up will be a debate on whether or not to raise...

The balance between protecting the public and protecting individual liberties is sometimes a delicate one, particularly regarding the involuntary commitment of people with mental illnesses. Any violent...