YES Finding a parking spot on campus is a precious gift. But the joy of finding your beloved parking spot turns to shambles when your pockets come up empty of change. Or when you are so in tuned to a...

As the weather gets colder, Cambus ridership increases dramatically — and so do complaints. Drawing on my experience of two years as a Cambus driver, I will attempt to enlighten passengers on the workings...

Illinois is definitely a blue state, led by Democrat Gov. Pat Quinn. Democrats have controlled both the Legislature and the governorship since 2003. The state is in a “crippling” budget crisis, with...

American workers can be an interesting bunch. For decades, most have seen their wages stagnate and the power of transnational corporations grow. Organizing workers and building implacable solidarity,...

We are living in exceptional times. We do not have to look as far as Egypt, even, for verification. Students in the UK (who, by British stereotypes, would have to be one of the most politically apathetic...

Gov. Terry Branstad’s crusades at the expense of working- and middle-class Iowans continue. The governor’s new labor proposals seem to have no discernible motive besides discouraging union membership....

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...