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State government released a bunch of tax reports recently, as it does at the end of every year before a new session of the Iowa General Assembly. There is a tendency to view such reports …
To Iowans it often appears that modern agriculture is built around four commodities – corn, soybeans, hogs and cattle – although that may be changing.
To be sure, there are reasons Iowa became a focal …
A lot happened in 2020. Let’s unpack the year and see what we can learn. I’ll start with the Iowa caucuses. The neighborhood political meetings had value nearly 50 years ago when the modern version …
The disconnect between Main Street and Wall Street is about as wide this year as at any time in memory. Main Street, as represented by the hospitality industry – hotels, taverns and neighborhood restaurants – …
Not since Lyndon Baines Johnson has an incoming U.S. president had as much congressional experience as Joe Biden. Nor have we had a new chief executive with as much foreign policy experience since George Herbert …
There’s something special about this year’s Iowa State football team. And it’s not that baby-faced quarterback Brock Purdy reminds me of my 4-year-old grandson, which he does.
People, like me, who grew up in Ames …
It’s time to rethink how freedom of the press works, and why it is not working as effectively in the 21st century as in earlier times.
Everywhere you look you can find examples of how …
Our daughter, Holly, is one of the most fearless women I know.
At 41 years of age, she is a mechanical engineer and partner at BBS Architects Engineers, one of Des Moines’ oldest building design …
Neal Smith’s 2019 memoir “From My Century to Yours: Wisdom From the Near 100-Year Life of Former Congressman Neal E. Smith” is both fascinating and frustrating.
It’s fascinating because Smith, a Democrat from Polk County, …
“‘Tis well,” were George Washington’s final words before dying at Mount Vernon on Dec. 14, 1799, according to a new book by Washington scholar Peter Henriques.
I was casting about for something to write this …
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