The final report of the Task Force on Graduate Education: Selective Excellence has drawn much attention in the University of Iowa and the higher education community — and rightfully so. It is rare that...

Earlier this week, the Iowa City City Council exhumed the corpse of the 21-ordinance from its nearly 21⁄2-year-old grave. The Editorial Board would be happy to see the ordinance rest in peace. The move...

The David Miles I spoke with Wednesday morning was not the David Miles the public is used to hearing. “I’m not throwing in the towel at all to make the case over and over again to the Legislature,...

“What school do you go to?” “I go to Iowa.” “Oh, I bet you have fun up there.” “Yeah, it’s a blast.” “I bet you get wasted a lot, huh?” This tends to be a typical conversation...

YES While the Iowa City City Council voted on Monday to put off discussion on an inclusionary-zoning ordinance, future debate on the issue is sure to be contentious. Inclusionary zoning can take various...

I woke up on Monday in Haiti when my bunk began to shake. Actually, a few minutes before when the dogs started barking. Just when I was about to shout, “Just shoot the dog,” the tremor began. It was...

Tweet no more. Starting this week, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics will block access to social-network sites on workstation computers. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook have become tools...

So we had a big to-do health-insurance-reform summit last week, and just as President Obama wanted, everybody played nicey-nice and all bipartisan and everything, and we wound up with health-care reform. So...

In many ways, the narrative for the upcoming election has already been written. Republicans are going to win, and probably big. A country frustrated by a depressed economy, war weariness, and the apparent...

It’s really a no-brainer: Text-messaging while driving is a bad idea. The effects are well-documented; with texters glancing at their cell phones for an average of six seconds at a time, their car is...

Is climate change not so much of an inconvenient truth after all? For years, we have been subjected to prophets bearing witness to the incontrovertible truth of climate change and global warming. Al Gore...

The following is a version of the open letter sent to Tom Rocklin, University of Iowa vice president for Student Services. Dear Mr. Rocklin: We, as members of the Bijou Theater Board of Directors, have...