As the trend toward promoting environmentally friendly communities spreads, entities in the Johnson Country area have been working to do their part as well. The Johnson County Council of Governments has...

So this is the way it apparently goes these days. On NPR recently, an infectious-disease expert, in urging people (that would be us, if you’re keeping score at home) to get flu shots, stressed that people...

As I write this progress note on Oct. 11, we are nine days into our quest to obtain 7,299 signatures in order to call for a special election to fill the Board of Supervisors’ seat left vacant by the...

The photo frame at Gay Days read, “Just Married in Iowa City.” The gay-friendly event at Disneyland Resort in California, which hosted approximately 30,000 attendees last week, was the latest in an...

Our esteemed Editorial Board — of which I am a member — advocated medical marijuana’s legalization on Oct. 9. In an interview with Sen. Joe Bolkcom, D-Iowa City, he talked with passion about the...

Late last month, as the Senate Finance Committee labored to produce its version of a health-care bill, the Republican whip, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, renewed an old warning. If the federal government intervenes...

Crawfordsville, Iowa, resident Lisa Jackson had been taking a wide assortment of opiates before she experienced what she called a two-week overdose. Not that she’d noticed it; she was in too much pain....

They could motivate a spoof of Lynard Skynard’s 1976 hit “That Smell.” Anyone who has walked through downtown Iowa City in the fall knows that offensive odor: a sour, irritating scent reminiscent...

Have you ever counted the number of people you know through the UI? Think of it as a variation on the “six degrees of separation” theory, which claims that, in terms of social connections, you are...

The Children’s Miracle Network, together with Microsoft, is going to donate XBox 360 consoles, flat-screen televisions, computers, speaker systems, and more to three pediatric hospitals around the country...

Rather than being cynical about the United States’ lack of progress on addressing climate change, there is some room for optimism. A series of developments both inside and outside of the government have...

The United States needs a health-care sweet spot — a way to raise revenue for needed programs now and a way to lower health-care costs in the future. Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages — those with...