Today in Washington, some politicians like to suggest that the many challenges we face as a nation -mean we shouldn’t tackle health-care reform. Nothing could be further from the truth. With more and...

New tattoo regulations designed to keep us safe will more likely just make it more difficult for artists to do their jobs. The Iowa Board of Health recently raised fees and certification requirements...

Can Facebook change the world? Facebook now has 250 million users all across the world. It’s popular mostly in the United States and Western European countries but also with millions of users in South...

There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America’s unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years, and it is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even...

Iowa City’s newest bicycle-safety effort looks a little bit like those arrows on the track in Mario Kart 64 — you know, the ones that, when you drive over them, give you a short burst of extra speed....

Books have a wonderful solidity to them, and I really do enjoy the sight of my bedroom walls lined with stacks of them. I’ve endured that particular Iowa City method of nomadism, moving house to house,...

I arrived in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport, 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) south of the capital, early Friday morning. As I stepped off the plane, I immediately noticed the smell of the polluted air....

Starting in the fall of 2010, all students will be charged a $219 fee for use of campus fitness facilities — regardless of whether the students actually want to work out at such locations. The winners,...

I’ve never paid much attention to Michael Jackson, mostly because my musical tastes don’t run (or walk or crawl or swim or any other verb you might want to toss up against the wall to see if it will...

Sometimes it pays to first look carefully at what doesn’t work when you are trying to fix something. This could hold true with health-care reform and the proposal before Congress to add a “public option”...

Iowa is home to maybe the first gubernatorial bid announced via Twitter. Unfortunately, that’s about the most interesting thing that has come from the pool of Republicans vying for Gov. Chet Culver’s...

It was a perfect opportunity, and I blew it. She totally cut me off. I had to slam on my brakes and swerve because she and her Subaru must’ve been running too late to soccer practice to wait till after...