Just months after the end of the longest presidential election season ever, voters will head back to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots regarding a local-option sales tax. The tax, if passed, would make...

An interesting case of news that isn’t news: Today’s the day that gay and lesbian marriages make their way into documented history for the state of Iowa. What makes this news isn’t the bright glare...

Second only to Hawkeye football, music festivals are the biggest passion in my life. Your pounding hangover and unbearable heat inside the tent force you to wake up. As you step outside, the smell of...

“I certainly wouldn’t hire him again.” Is that Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey talking about recently fired City Manager Michael Lombardo? No, it’s Allegan County, Mich., County Commissioner Steve...

Earth Day arrived Wednesday, and with it, several “green” events, including the broadcasting of “Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau” on public television and in schools. This is surprising at a time...

Last weekend marked a new direction in Iowa City’s war on alcohol-fueled violence. The police, despite adding four officers to patrol downtown, issued only one PAULA ticket and made only eight bar checks...

I have often wondered what it would be like to live in the ’80s, when pastel colors roamed free to the sounds of hair-metal. It was a time in which Miami was a cultural icon for a prosperous America....

Libraries across eastern Iowa are cracking down on fines. Many people who have returned overdue items to their local libraries are finding themselves being hounded by collection agencies as the libraries...

Journalism and weather. I hate that combination. But Wednesday’s blue skies were just too nice for me to resist writing about. Do you remember those few February days that hit 60 degrees? After months...

In releasing highly classified documents on the CIA interrogation program last week, President Barack Obama declared that the techniques used to question captured terrorists “did not make us safer.”...

Every day, it seems, the distance between the United States and the rest of world shrinks. For decades, the United States had a cushion from most of the world, wedged between the vast Pacific and Atlantic...

When retail mega-chain/chronic misspeller Toys R Us purchased the domain name www.toys.com in March, the company bought its way in to an incredibly small online community. However, unlike the standard...