By Tom Rocklin, Iowa City I’m voting for Dan Stevenson for school board, and I encourage you to do the same on Nov. 4, or ...

Some Iowa Head Start programs providing child care and early childhood education could be impacted if the federal government shutdown continues into November. Pictured are children at the Downtown ...

Rep. Randy Feenstra with President Trump on Air Force One, July 3, 2025, in a photo shared to Feenstra’s official Twitter/X account. Rep. Randy Feenstra formally announced his campaign for governor ...

I am proud to wholeheartedly endorse my friend Jenny Struthers for election to our city’s council. Her deep understanding of the law and finance, her ability to engage a wide variety of people to ...

A city does not run on autopilot. If a city council is not engaged and proactive, people with too much power and too little accountability make bad decisions that affect everyone. I cannot take a ...

There’s this Andrea Gibson quote you may have come across in light of the poet’s passing this summer: “When nothing softens the grief, may grief soften me.” In a sense, the task that author John T.

By Angela Rogers, Coralville I am writing to express my strong support for Jenny Struthers, who is running for Coralville City Council. I have known Jenny for more than ten […] ...

Not just because the players in Sam Shepard’s 1960s-set American drama are fictional, but because nearly every character, at some point, has the desperate need to assert that their existence is ...

In her latest book The Monsters We Make, author and journalist (and Iowa native) Rachel Corbett dives deep into the dark history of criminal profiling as “a tool for social control,” our collective ...

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne’s sophomore novel The Mean Ones (Creature Publishing) sounds relatively straightforward from the summary: a young girl survives a ritual sacrifice in the woods at summer camp, ...

Rep. Randy Feenstra formally announced his campaign for governor Tuesday, saying he aims to “take Iowa to new heights” by working with President Donald Trump and keeping the governor’s seat […] ...

There’s this Andrea Gibson quote you may have come across in light of the poet’s passing this summer: “When nothing softens the grief, may grief soften me.” In a sense, […] ...