Downtown is evolving — or on life support, depending on whom you ask. The sloppy monotony that characterized the unhealthy heart and the wild attraction of Iowa City has taken a hit. The novel number...

One of the largest property-management companies in Iowa City is under legal attack. You may know it as Apartments Downtown Iowa City or its separate management office, Apartments Near Campus. In past...

How do we know 9/11 wasn’t an inside job? Richard Falk is a longtime professor with degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Harvard. By the typical standards of our society, he should...

My first tape was CrazySexyCool by TLC. My first CD was Weird Al’s Running with Scissors. I still have them somewhere in the old room at my parents’ house. Unfortunately, with the rise of MP3s and...

Students probably saw this coming. Keeping with the trend of rising higher education costs and lower state appropriations, the state Board of Regents proposed a tuition increase Feb. 3 that would raise...

So who came worst in the Super Bowl — Ben Roethlisberger, Groupon, or Christina Aguilera? Yeah, I thought so, too. Yes, the Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback had something of a rough game; throwing two...

Following November’s election, Iowans’ decision not to retain three of the seven state Supreme Court justices because of a controversial ruling continues to raise questions about the future of the...

I was shaking, engulfed by an anxiousness experienced only by teenage girls about to see another Twilight movie and those about to testify in front of hundreds of people on behalf of their family. The...

State legislatures across the country are now experiencing one of the more unattractive aspects of governing: cutting budgets. Even Iowa, whose budget has been well-managed in recent years, is now forced...

One side is chock full of freedom-hating statists; the other, callous aggrandizers of Big Business. Or so the potshots go. In truth, despite real (and, admittedly, some intractable) differences, libertarians...

It was a unique race with an incumbent Democratic governor running against a former four-term Republican governor; a race in which both candidates were well-known and ran well-financed campaigns. But rather...

YES During a time when officials are talking about putting people back to work, it may seem counterintuitive to support a measure that could cause a job loss, however negligible. But Iowans will be better...