Time was, you settled down, got married, had kids. Many women were told that that was the natural order of things, with mothers staying in the home to raise their children. The only problem was …

Interesting that the anti-DEI Republicans have voted in favor of HF 516, which mandates that 80% of applicants accepted to dental and medical programs at the University of Iowa be Iowa residents or …

Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator, Republican Chuck Grassley, met with more than 50 of us from the Jefferson area here last Thursday morning. Unlike most Republican members of Congress these days, …

Last week we passed the Governor's Disaster Relief bill, SF 619 / HF 1012, the bill had a few changes from my update last week. Those changes include: Adds a limiting provision to the …

Longtime readers of this weekly effort may recall my affection for the word “woodenheadedness.” It comes from “The March of Folly,” Barbara Tuchman's 1984 book about …

With colleges under full frontal assault, whiskey purveyor and Beaver great Keith Kerkhoff regaled the Storm Lake United annual banquet with tales of facing legendary Football Coach Jim Hershberger …

Iowa could return to its moderate good sense with Gov. Kim Reynolds retired. For nearly a decade, Reynolds presided over declining school test scores, banning books in schools, shaming of gays, …

With the bankruptcy of Holzhauer auto dealerships in Storm Lake and Cherokee, it seems unlikely that the Ford brand will reappear in The City Beautiful, ending more than a century of Blue Oval sales …

A constitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials …

“There is none so blind as he who will not see.” — Singer Ray Stevens, “Everything is Beautiful” You hear stories about how a young female had no idea she was …

It’s called “collective punishment” when an entire group or community is sanctioned for an act of one member, or a few of them. It’s a form of bullying. The punished group …

I know many voted for Trump because of the high cost of most items, especially groceries and the huge influx of immigrants. Trump promised he would bring down the price of food immediately. This has …

On April 2, Humanities Iowa was among all state humanities councils nationwide notified that federal funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities has been terminated — effective …

Earlier this year, the House Local Government Committee reported out of committee House Study Bill 246. Since then, the bill was referred to the Appropriations Committee which gave it a second …

The Trump Administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime but it can't exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of …

It’s never been easy as a Democrat in Northwest Iowa. They are few and far between. Back when Dad ran for legislature from Buena Vista County on the Kennedy ticket in 1960, they burned a cross …

It came too late and is too little but at least we finally have an education funding bill to present for Gov. Kim Reynolds’s signature, allowing 2% growth for local school districts. Sen. Lynn …

Big corporations like Apple and General Motors weren’t the only victims of last week’s stock market crash ignited by President Trump’s reckless tariffs which upended the …

My mom was a terrible cook. Well, maybe not terrible, but she was not well suited for the job. My brother said it was the reason he was so skinny as a kid. He swears we ate pancakes nearly every …

Rarely, if ever, has Iowa’s congressional delegation found itself situated to alter the course of America’s economy. But right now it can, and one of the six in the delegation has already …