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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

Point-counterpoint: The popular-vote conundrum

DI EDITORIAL WRITERS March 5, 2009

Point — National popular vote is good for Iowa Be brave, Iowa senators. Approve the national popular-vote bill, and take Iowa into the next American political era. Send a message to the Electoral College...

Banning Barbie

NATE WHITNEY March 5, 2009

BIt’s a warm June day in 2010, and in Huntington, W.V., a Toys ’R’ Us store is quiet save for a handful of customers slowly wandering the aisles. An employee is standing idly at the register, another...

Obama should move on Colombian free trade

LA TIMES EDITORIAL March 5, 2009

President Obama’s trade agenda is nothing if not ambitious. His just-released policy statement, titled “Making Trade Work for American Families,” ties trade to energy efficiency and environmental...

The Czech-Slovak Museum needs flood repairs

DI EDITORIAL BOARD March 3, 2009

Tales of the Cedar Rapids flood have shifted from horror stories of the disaster itself to drawn-out epics of trudging through recovery purgatory. Accompanying anecdotes of struggling with the destruction,...

How to fight a Depression – not a drop at a time

In recent months, it has become almost a reflex for Republicans to dismiss President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal as a dismal failure of the Democrats — a “jihad against private enterprise”...

Imagining

BEAU ELLIOT March 3, 2009

Imagine, if you can, a world in which financial guru Warren Buffett compares the financial markets to an STD. Well, OK, that’s not exactly imagining the way John Lennon imagined imagining. I’m...

Local store attempts to limit bag waste

DI EDITORIAL BOARD March 2, 2009

On Earth Day, the New Pioneer Co-op will become a deeper shade of green. Customers who wish to carry their purchases out of the store in paper or plastic bags will be charged 5 cents per bag. Proceeds...

I’mageddon some popcorn

DEAN TREFTZ March 2, 2009

As the first spring of the worst recession in 25-plus years approaches, I’ve been nursing a giddy knot in my stomach, like a drawn-out Xmas Eve. Every day above 40 degrees, there’s a little hop in...

Our science fictions, from Genesis to echinacea

JOEL STEIN - LA TIMES March 2, 2009

Nobody likes science. You can tell by the fact that they teach it in school. There aren’t any high-school courses in pizza, pot smoking, or car chases. I don’t like science, either. I mean, it sounds...

Don’t pay-to-play for internships

DI EDITORIAL BOARD February 27, 2009

As the summer months approach, many UI students are faced with a difficult decision on how to efficiently use their summer vacation. While some students are happy with returning to their high school jobs,...

Embracing the collapse

CHRISTOPHER PATTON February 27, 2009

As the global economy slides into ever-deeper recession, a growing chorus of doomsayers are predicting the end of life as we know it. And maybe that would be a good thing. Unsurprisingly, most elite voices...

In policy, Obama finds the Bush center

JONAH GOLDBERG - LA TIMES February 27, 2009

Here’s something President Obama’s biggest fans may need to hear: He’s just not that into you. The new president has ordered that his predecessor’s rendition policies remain largely intact, even...