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National data show careful investments in high-quality preschools and small class size in elementary schools can pay off. Above, pre-K students at Dorris Place Elementary School in Los Angeles on May 12, 2015. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Weigel: Student Teaching: All Work, No Pay

Zach Weigel, Opinions Columnist
December 9, 2018

Open for interpretation

Zach Weigel, Opinions Columnist
December 3, 2018
Weigel: Health screenings can help students

Weigel: Health screenings can help students

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
December 2, 2018
On display at Perry's Gun Shop in Wendell, North Carolina, an AR-15 assault rifle manufactured by Core15 Rifle Systems. The weapon costs $2,384 and features an EoTech optical sighting system and a 30-round magazine capacity. (Chuck Liddy/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT)

Weigel: Sizing up gun reform post-midterms

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
November 25, 2018
Let’s save ourselves from the perils of Daylight Saving Time

Let’s save ourselves from the perils of Daylight Saving Time

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
November 13, 2018

Condense the holiday season

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
November 11, 2018
Weigel: Talking entitlement reform

Weigel: Talking entitlement reform

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
November 5, 2018
Pro Candy Corn

Pro Candy Corn

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
October 30, 2018
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds speaks during her first Condition of the State address in the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Reynolds took over the governor office in May 2017.

Weigel: Will Iowa stay ruby red Republican? Probably.

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
October 24, 2018
A tailgater pours out a beer for beer pong in Iowa City on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018.

Weigel: In heaven there is no beer

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
October 18, 2018
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in by chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, focusing on allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s. (Tom Williams/Pool/CQ Roll Call/Abaca Press/TNS)

Weigel: Partisanship plagues the American political process

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
October 11, 2018
Weigel: Our identities are on a spectrum, including gender

Weigel: Our identities are on a spectrum, including gender

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
October 8, 2018
A tailgater pours out a beer for beer pong in Iowa City on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018.

Weigel: Party not so hard? Or so hard to party?

Zach Weigel
September 26, 2018
The corner of Dubuque and Burlington streets at night on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. (David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan)

Weigel: Lack of infrastructure holds city back

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
September 19, 2018
During City Council election forum, candidates shared their vision for Iowa City at the Mill.

Weigel: How the Iowa City City Council should have handled the special election

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
September 12, 2018
Students shoot hoops on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway on Tuesday, September 26, 2017. UISG hosted tables where students could register to vote.

Weigel: What is behind the ideological bias in UISG?

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
September 4, 2018
InfoWars Host Alex Jones outside of the Republican Convention in Cleveland on July 18, 2016.

Weigel: Banning Infowars: A step in the right direction

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
August 26, 2018

Space Force: A bunch of baloney

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
August 23, 2018
A customer throws a hatchet during the soft opening of Hatchet Jack's on Saturday, June 30, 2018. Hatchet Jack's will be opening soon and allows patrons to throw axes while enjoying beer and wine. (Matthew Finley/The Daily Iowan)

Weigel: Hatchet Jack’s: Is it worth it?

Zach Weigel, Opinion Columnist
August 19, 2018
Many of the Buffalo Bill players kneel on the sidelines for the national anthem before the game with the Atlanta Falcons in the land of the free on Oct. 1, 2017 in Atlanta. (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Weigel: Sometimes, no policy is the best policy

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
July 30, 2018
The Old Capitol is seen on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017.

Weigel: Education needs to be treated as a right

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
July 24, 2018
President Donald Trump speaks at an event titled "Generation Next: A White House Forum" in the South Court Auditorium on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

Weigel: Hypocrisy in a supposed meritocracy

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
July 16, 2018
Devin Conover plays beer pong while tailgating before the football game between the University of Iowa and Ohio State University on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017. (David Harmantas/The Daily Iowan)

Weigel: Why Busch Light is Iowa’s beer

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
July 10, 2018
Weigel: Why the Supreme Court’s blow to unions matters

Weigel: Why the Supreme Court’s blow to unions matters

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
July 2, 2018
The Capitol building in Des Moines is pictured on April 29, 2019.

Weigel: Education funding windfall? How new sales-tax revenue could be used

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
June 27, 2018
Jon Bakehouse, right, and his father Bach Bakehouse, center, pick up a few bags of a new type of soybean during planting season on April 29, 2015 in Hastings, Iowa. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Weigel: Schools, pesticide driftage, common sense driftage

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
June 20, 2018
Iowa Democratic nominee for governor Fred Hubbell speaks at a campaign event at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City on Sunday, June 3. Hubbell will face off against incumbent Gov. Kim Reynolds in November. (Nick Rohlman/The Daily Iowan)

Weigel: Take the time to get to know the candidates, not just their parties

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
June 11, 2018
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Weigel: Public interest must be favored over pork mills

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
July 23, 2017
Voters register to vote in the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center in Iowa City on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. Iowa voters could register at their polling places. (The Daily Iowan/Joseph Cress)

Weigel: U.S. must follow Iowa on gerrymandering

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
July 17, 2017
University of Iowa mascot Herky the Hawkeye goes back out On Parade for the 10th Anniversary of Herky on Parade on Monday, May 5, 2014.

Wiegel: Life lessons of the college years, after all

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
May 9, 2017
FILE - In this file photo then-Republican Candidate Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines on Saturday, May 16, 2015.

Weigel: Trump: Excuses, excuses, excuses

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
October 18, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the South Florida Fairgrounds and Convention Center, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Weigel: Trump’s tax trickery confusing

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
October 13, 2016
Weigel: Assessing the effect of NAFTA

Weigel: Assessing the effect of NAFTA

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
October 6, 2016
Weigel: Real vs. the Ideal Man here & now

Weigel: Real vs. the Ideal Man here & now

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
October 3, 2016
Weigel: Bridges to the future, not walls

Weigel: Bridges to the future, not walls

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
September 29, 2016
Donald trump speaks to a room of more than a thousy and supporters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, July 28, 2016. Trump was joined by Iowa GOP members Joni Ernst, and Terry Branstad. (The Daily Iowan/Jordan Gale)

Weigel: Trump: Changing the political game

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
September 20, 2016
Herky performs during the Beat State Pep Rally Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 on the Pentacrest. (Brian Ray/hawkeyesports.com)

Weigel: Herky’s just fine as he is

Zach Weigel, [email protected]
September 1, 2016
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