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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 …
I was leaning against the wrought-iron fence at P.E.O. International’s Headquarters on Grand Avenue, admiring the new circular steel sculpture by the University of Northern Iowa’s Tom Stancliffe when a familiar voice spoke. “It’s not …
An interesting and potentially game-changing legal case is playing out in federal court in New York where Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s insurance and banking regulators are arrayed against the National Rifle Association. Earlier this year, New …
My friend Larry Fruhling wrote one of the best newspaper corrections ever. It was back in 1996, when he was compiling a 12-part series on the history of Iowa for the Des Moines Register. It …
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