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The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The editor was too busy to write a headline

JOHN KELLY, WASHINGTON POST June 30, 2009

For the past three months, I have been carrying around in my briefcase a prescription for new eyeglasses. Do I have new glasses? No. Why? Because I’m too busy to get them. Because I haven’t gotten...

Mediocre air and water quality ratings in Iowa tarnish our “green” reputation

DI EDITORIAL BOARD June 29, 2009

Summer is in the air and, unfortunately, that’s not the only thing in the air. A drive up Interstate 380 at certain points of the day will prove that. The air blowing in one direction will produce a...

Are you there Recession? It’s me, Iowa City.

DEAN TREFTZ June 29, 2009

Call it recession depression. There’s something oddly disappointing about living in the city with the lowest unemployment in the nation during the biggest recession in 75 years. Iowa City had an unemployment...

Parks and rec should take a back seat to other top priorities

DI EDITORIAL BOARD June 26, 2009

Parks and recreation areas are important. But are they as important as a stronger police force, better fire prevention, and flood-mitigation projects? Not even close. The Iowa City City Council recently...

Meddling as foreign policy

JUSTIN SUGG June 26, 2009

Exactly what constitutes “meddling in the internal affairs of a country”? It seems today people have different meanings and interpretations for this term. Obviously, the term has a negative connotation,...

Squelching coal should be a priority

THE WASHINGTON POST June 26, 2009

Cap-and-trade was supposed to allow Congress to avoid picking winners and losers in the fight against climate change. Advocates claim that approach, which relies on the market to figure out the easiest...

Equipping campus police with guns was on target

DI EDITORIAL BOARD June 25, 2009

More guns, they said, will surely lead to brutally bloody blunders. Yet, more than a year and a half since the UI police — for the first time in more than 40 years — strapped guns into their holsters,...

Iranian youth bring hope

SIMEON TALLEY June 25, 2009

Every night in Tehran, Iran, you can hear people chanting from rooftops in unison “God is great” and “death to the dictator.” By day, people march, and face severe persecution and even death. What...

Have theorists dug up an Obama conspiracy? Not likely

SUSAN REIMER - BALTIMORE SUN June 25, 2009

It looks like the White House vegetable garden — first lady Michelle Obama’s effort to model healthful eating for the nation — is infested with a pest previously unknown to horticulture. It’s the...

Athlete crimes stain reputation, but pinning the source is no easy matter

DI EDITORIAL BOARD June 24, 2009

Hawkeye football players breaking the law — and getting caught — shines an extremely negative light on the UI. However, when it comes to our football team’s legal woes, finding the source of the...

Dirty memories of print media

COLIN GILBERT June 24, 2009

OK, so I love reading Playboy. And I mean reading, now, especially the fiction. Don’t get me wrong, the middle sections are nice too, sometimes a lot nicer, but it’s a damn classy publication. I guess...

For young adults in job market, optimism is key

It’s a daunting time to be entering the work force. Today’s young adults — like their great-grandparents eight decades earlier — are graduating from high school and college and starting careers...