That's a great question and it was asked — and answered — by Jonathan Coppess, an associate professor of law and policy at the University of Illinois, in a “dismaying” July 17 …

Getting old is serious business. Rochester is booming off the boomers. I was fortunate enough to pay a visit to the Mayo Clinic last week and see a man about my bum. The Gonda Building gleams in …

The Trump Administration has been consumed of late in the controversy over the president’s dead friend, Jeffrey Epstein, and whether intimate details from Epstein’s law enforcement files …

We’ve been doing a fair amount of driving this year, from coast to coast, and while the country may be divided on a lot of political issues, one thing everyone seems to agree on is that speed …

Andy McKean is a charming country lawyer from Anamosa. He grew up in New York and was drawn to Iowa by his family roots. He has owned a bed-and-breakfast, called square dances and played in a …

I’m heartsick. An author that I loved lied. It wasn’t that she quibbled or fudged. She lied by seriously distorting basic facts. She wrote three lovely memoirs (The Salt Path, The Wild …

You have had to hear the phrase “a necessary evil.”  That’s exactly what taxes are.  No one likes paying taxes, but do you want paved roads and bridges built over …

I’ve been thinking lately about wealth. Not mine — I’m woefully short on acquaintance and familiarity with the subject, and that’s not going to change. But as I age, I …

Anyone who attended high school probably remembers their world history teacher talking about countries that militarized their law enforcement to make what is referred to as a police state. Examples …

In an apparent lightning strike of insight, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins offered her solution to what she and her GOP colleagues see as one of America's biggest problems: …

Iowa may be lagging last in economic performance, but we are Number One in hogs. Eggs too. Celebrate that we have the most polluted surface water on the continent. On some things we will not be …

Central Iowa is under mandatory water conservation orders because of high nitrate levels in the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers, the primary drinking water sources for Des Moines and its suburbs. A …

I never went to business school. I was a glorified English major in college. But I feel I’ve earned a PhD in economics running this small business for the past 35 years. My business …

One longtime truism of journalism is “Names make news.”  That shorthand stems from the fact people better understand the significance and context of news when they learn about …

The state of Iowa in 2013 approved its “Nutrient Reduction Strategy” for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into the state’s streams and rivers, and eventually downstream into …

Having received a monthly ad magazine from a grocery chain out of Colorado, I was intrigued by an article they included in the July edition. The title of the one page article was “Fighting …

Recently Jared Kushner ( JK) and his wife, Ivanka Trump acquired the island Sazan from Albania and plan to spend $1.4 billion developing it into a resort. Imagine the president paying a visit: …

From the time I drove into Iowa when I moved here almost two years ago this coming August, I continually am reminded what the phrase “Iowa Nice” stands for. Then, as I was passing through …

A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court gave the legislature a major victory in late June as it ruled against Governor Tony Evers’ partial veto of policy directives for a state literacy program. …

Lost in the breathless reporting on the huge federal budget cuts and even more massive federal tax cuts just passed by the heel-clicking Congress was a report on just how rich America's mega-rich now …