Posted July 27, 2020in Stray Thoughts
Even before coronavirus hit American colleges and universities, even before their budgets imploded because of the pandemic, questions were being asked nationally about how these institutions spend their money. Some [...]
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Posted July 21, 2020in Stray Thoughts
The death of Congressman John Lewis last Friday night accomplished what police officers with their billy clubs and white mobs with their fists and pipes never were able to achieve: [...]
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Posted July 14, 2020in Stray Thoughts
Give an extra tug on your seatbelt. The next couple of months will be rough ones. The new school year starts in a few weeks. Not surprisingly, with the coronavirus [...]
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Posted July 07, 2020in Stray Thoughts
The sun was drooping close to the tree line as the day wound down in southern Pennsylvania eight years ago. A retired U.S. Army officer, now a historian, led a [...]
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Posted July 01, 2020in Stray Thoughts
The decision illuminated an embarrassing disconnect from the norms of government transparency and accountability in our state. The decision to cancel the Iowa State Fair was a reminder of the [...]
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Posted June 30, 2020in Stray Thoughts
There’s so much anxiety going around in Iowa City now, and Maalox could easily qualify as the official summer beverage. There’s anxiety over what the fall semester will look like [...]
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Posted June 23, 2020in Stray Thoughts
There have not been a lot of bright spots since coronavirus began sickening Iowans. So far, 685 people have died in our state from the virus, and another 26,000 have [...]
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Posted June 08, 2020in Stray Thoughts
There’s a quiz today. How would the tragic death of George Floyd have been perceived if the encounter occurred on a deserted side street in the middle of the night, [...]
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Posted June 01, 2020in Stray Thoughts
“Optics” is a term that has come a long way from the days when it pretty much was the exclusive domain of eye doctors and companies that make telescopes, cameras, [...]
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Posted May 26, 2020in Stray Thoughts
The shackles could not hold us. The Evanses cast them aside last week and traveled to Bloomfield and Cedar Rapids to visit our parents. There are few social distancing concerns [...]
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