“Let them eat cake,” said a 6-1 vote in City Council on April 4, led by Councilor Michelle Payne. This was done in response to my requesting a bus shelter to be provided at the planned relocation...

You may have more in common with your member of Congress than you think, especially around this time of year. Students and lawmakers alike want to finish up the year and head home for the holidays. But...

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a whimper, a growl, and a yippy bark. Doubtless many residents of Iowa City were elated to discover that the oft-maligned ban against dogs on the Pedestrian...

The unemployment rate for Americans 18-29 years old is nearly 12 percent. Given the increasing debt that students must incur for a college education, it’s no surprise that jobs is an important issue...

Several polls in battleground states over the last few weeks have shown gains for President Obama. Several of these polls had many more respondents who self-identified as Democrats than Republicans. The...

For the 17th straight year, Congress has missed the deadline for passing a final budget and the spending bills needed to fund government operations for the next 12 months. This may not have made the headlines,...

Now that Congress has adjourned until after Election Day, the senators and representatives will return to their states and districts. In non-election years this would mean holding town-hall meetings and...

The recent release of a secretly recorded video of Mitt Romney speaking to a group of donors last May has caused an intense reaction in the press. In the video, Romney noted the oft-quoted statistic that...

On Sept. 5 at approximately 3:54 p.m., as I walked along Clinton Street on my way home from work, another horridly dull and mildly depressing day behind me, I was jarred from my stupor by the sight of...

In 1974, I was elected to the United States Congress as a Democrat serving a predominately Republican district in northwest Iowa. I served 12 years, and during that time, Republicans and Democrats still...

Planned Parenthood Action Fund held a rally Aug. 23 in Des Moines as part of the Women are Watching bus tour, which is crisscrossing the country to educate voters about what’s at stake for women’s...