“When I first came here [in early 2014], it was clear that this building had to fly,” world renowned architect Renzo Piano said during the recent opening of the Krause Gateway Center at 1459 Grand …
“The past is never dead; it’s not even past.” That line from a William Faulkner novel inspired historian Jon Meacham to write “The Soul of America, the Battle for Our Better Angels,” a new book …
This week’s column is about footgolf, which involves kicking a soccer ball into oversized holes on a golf course. It’s a sport few people have heard of and even fewer have played. I’m not one …
Here’s a curious bit of financial irony: Tax cut legislation is the reason state government is flush with money leading up to Tuesday’s election, and it’s why state tax receipts will continue to grow next …
E15 ethanol is not a good solution for Iowa farmers.
President Donald Trump captured a lot of headlines earlier this month when he directed the Environmental Protection Agency to do something he’d been promising since …
An Esquire magazine article — https://bit.ly/2DHo089 — that appeared online Sept. 30 suggests that Republican Congressman Steve King’s immigrant-bashing may be wearing thin among Iowa constituents whose livelihoods depend on undocumented labor. The subject of …
David Feehan, who helped make the Downtown Farmers’ Market a success 20 years ago and was instrumental in the redesign of the Martin Luther King Jr. bypass as a welcoming boulevard, has a surprisingly simple …
The University of Iowa is acting like the institutional equivalent of a deadbeat dad. For the past two years, the school has failed to pay Modern Piping, a well-respected Cedar Rapids mechanical contractor, millions of …
Last month, the Des Moines Sunday Register featured an analysis of immigrant labor in Iowa. It pretty much concluded that without undocumented foreign-born workers, northwest Iowa and many other parts of rural Iowa would not …
State Rep. Peter Cownie of West Des Moines is responsible for one of the nicer surprises to emerge from this year’s extensive rewrite of Iowa tax laws. In early May at the end of this …
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