Guest Column: If the Midwest is hot, why isn't Iowa?
Guest Column: If the Midwest is hot, why isn't Iowa? The affordability crisis isn't helping the Hawkeye State By Ed Tibbetts The Midwest is hot. That’s not a sentence I expecte…
Letter to Editor: “Thank you”
To the Anamosa Community, It has been my privilege, for the past nine years, to be the choir director at Anamosa High School. Support for students and our schools has always been a…
STRAY THOUGHTS: Des Moines’ costly badge of secrecy
STRAY THOUGHTS: Des Moines’ costly badge of secrecy By Randy Evans City leaders in Des Moines are making it difficult to understand why they selected the new police chief, consid…
GUEST COLUMN: United We Stand: Renewal and promise ahead
GUEST COLUMN United We Stand: Renewal and promise ahead By Jones County Iowa Republican Women As winter loosens its grip and the land around us begins to change, fields soften,…
IN THE SENATE: Funnel Deadline Marks Key Progress
IN THE SENATE: Funnel Deadline Marks Key Progress By Carrie Koelker, R-Dyersville The tenth week of the legislative session marked another important deadline as we approached the final…
IN THE HOUSE: House Committee Passes Historic Property Tax Reform
IN THE HOUSE: House Committee Passes Historic Property Tax Reform By Rep. Dr. Steven Bradley, R-Cascade This week, the House Ways and Means Committee passed House Study Bill 596. The …
Guest Column: Communities worth the encore
Guest Column: Communities worth the encore By Derek Lumsden, executive director of Jones County Economic Development I recently completed six months of being in two plays at Starli…
IN THE HOUSE: State bills target judicial transparency and emergency overreach
IN THE HOUSE: State bills target judicial transparency and emergency overreach By Rep. Dr. Steven Bradley (R-Cascade) Prior to every general election the same question comes up: …
IN THE SENATE: Focusing on education, child care, property tax reform
IN THE SENATE: Focusing on education, child care, property tax reform By Carrie Koelker (R-Dyersville) This week marked the ninth week of the legislative session and included a full…
The Document Divide: Why public record laws are failing average Americans, and what to do about it
Sunshine Week column The Document Divide: Why public record laws are failing average Americans, and what to do about it By David Cuillier Brechner Freedom of Information Project …
Feature Columns: Strengthening Iowa’s Voice: Iowa’s cancer rates
Feature Columns: Strengthening Iowa’s Voice: Iowa’s cancer rates Editor’s Note: The Iowa Newspaper Association presents questions to the Republican and Democratic parties in a feat…
IN THE SENATE: Halfway Point of Legislative Session, Advances Key Bills
By Carrie Koelker, (R-Dyersville) This week, we learned the names of two Iowans who were killed in action in Kuwait on March 1. Major Jeffrey O’Brien of Waukee and Sergeant Declan Co…