03/23/23
One state among the 50 registered an increase in the incidence of cancer in 2022. That would be Iowa. The only one. Only Kentucky ranked ahead of Iowa last year [...]
Read More →One state among the 50 registered an increase in the incidence of cancer in 2022. That would be Iowa. The only one. Only Kentucky ranked ahead of Iowa last year [...]
Read More →Words can convey both meaning and opinion. They therefore can be weaponized, stretched beyond their literal usage, to win favor, or to bully, or to slander. Propagandists know the power [...]
Read More →Americans, as is our wont, continually focus on “the questions of the day.” Some of those issues change over time, but sometimes it takes a long time. And sometimes it’s [...]
Read More →Most every morning I meet with a group at a coffee shop in Jefferson. It’s informal – anyone who shows up becomes a member for that morning. We number anywhere [...]
Read More →We’re about to find out if the name “Fox News” has any meaning. For two decades before January 2021, Fox News had the largest viewer audience in all of cable [...]
Read More →Public officials, both past and present, who refuse to testify or to answer a subpoena take a big risk. And they have no good choices. Governmental executives, like presidents and [...]
Read More →Diplomacy is not for amateurs. Members of our Congress can easily make it political. The ever-present complexity of foreign relations tempts some members of our government to take positions entirely [...]
Read More →Sometimes it’s easy to understand legislative proposals. Other times, not so much. House File 3, filed early in the 2023 session of the Iowa Legislature, falls in the second category. [...]
Read More →If Senate File 23 were to become law in Iowa, all city and school elections would be partisan, and only partisan. Candidates in those elections would have their names placed [...]
Read More →Political pundits are having a field day with the dramatic election of Republican Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the U.S. House last week. McCarthy finally won by a one-vote margin [...]
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