If $54,500 could prevent the potential of a toddler falling from a pedestrian bridge onto a heavily trafficked road, do you think it would be worth spending? Or a dog dangling from a leash over that road? There...

Iowa City sometimes resembles a Chicago suburb. This is especially true during the football and baseball seasons, when Illinois transplants festoon their apartments and lawns with Chicago-area sports team...

You are probably reading this for free. Sure, there’s a chance you pay for a subscription or that you picked this up at a convenience store for half a buck. But, more likely, you grabbed this copy of...

Talk to filmmakers and media executives about the Internet — the biggest tectonic shift in the entertainment industry since the advent of cable — and they typically gripe about two things. Consumers,...

The disputed election in Iran seems so far away. That’s because it is; Iran’s capital, Tehran, is more than 7,000 miles from Iowa City. But that doesn’t mean locals need be totally disconnected...

Sometimes an empty day holds infinite promise, the sense of possibilities multiplying all around you, and that day seems wonderful for its sheer blankness. And then the empty day comes around with its...

If there’s one thing we don’t need, it’s more choice in life. Take the supermarket. It’s tough enough sifting through the variations of each product on the shelves, but it’s a miracle if you...

In a university of this stature, it’s important that all educators on campus share common goals. In order for our university to move forward, administrators and faculty and staff members alike must work...

What if they threw an election and everybody came? Well, nearly everybody — 85 percent, according to some reports. And what if, when the government announced the results, millions and millions of people...

I am one of the business owners in the North Side neighborhood, and I was quite pleased that your paper covered our interest in working with the city to improve and promote our neighborhood (“North Side...

The announcement of possible layoffs at the UI is a startling reminder that our local economy is not completely immune to recession. However, there are several reasons not to panic over the possibility...

This weekend, an ayatollah helped remind me why I love Iowa. The thought struck me after about an hour of paging through coverage of the (ahem) disputed election results in Iran. I realized that it’s...