I have a Twitter account, I announce to a friend, apropos of utterly nothing. (Which is typical of me. A great deal of the time, I’m a walking non sequitur, much to the consternation of my colleagues,...

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has become just the latest high profile politician to fall in the “booby trap.” Across this nation, regardless of party alliance, people are scratching their heads...

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...

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...