Courts
Appeals courts that sit as multi-member panels, including supreme courts, hear pleadings and legal arguments in public. But after those end, and the briefs are filed, the judges retire to [...]
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Posted May 17, 2022in Morain
Posted May 10, 2022in Morain
Iowans themselves could decide the state’s abortion status
Millions of Americans are now focused on the issue of abortion, after someone leaked a first draft of the U.S. Supreme Court’s apparent decision to repeal the nation’s guarantee of [...]
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Posted May 05, 2022in Morain
I’m a Rhubarbarian
Last Sunday, May 1, would have been my late brother Tom’s 75th birthday. He is much missed by his extended family members and many, many friends. Tom was blessed with [...]
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Posted April 29, 2022in Morain
Will the American Constitution’s strength prevail?
The nation has seen fit to tweak the original document as times and sentiments have changed. Are American political institutions strong enough to withstand the battering they’re taking today from [...]
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Posted April 29, 2022in Morain
Last Friday marked the 75th anniversary of one of the most signal days in the history of baseball
Last Friday marked the 75th anniversary of one of the most signal days in the history of baseball – in fact, in the history of American professional sports, and in [...]
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Posted April 29, 2022in Morain
Ineffable
Beethoven’s genius overcame his handicap, and he created most of his compendium of magnificent compositions within a silent world. The word “ineffable” means incapable of being described in words. It’s [...]
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Posted March 28, 2022in Morain
Democracy
A bill has been proposed in the Iowa Senate that would give enormous power to a minority in the Iowa Legislature. Not a racial, gendered, religious or ethnic minority, but [...]
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Posted March 22, 2022in Morain
When the state controls the media
Last week was Sunshine Week in the United States. It was not in Russia. The American Society of News Editors established Sunshine Week in 2005 to emphasize the importance of [...]
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Posted March 17, 2022in Morain
Making sense of Ukraine
I’m sitting here trying to write a column about Ukraine that makes sense. It’s hard to know where to start. A few nations are blessed, or cursed, to be situated [...]
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Posted March 09, 2022in Morain
When things seemed fairer and better for most people
For decades I’ve thought of myself as pretty much a liberal. I favor empowerment of average people, the right of all individuals to decide their own value system, a living [...]
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