Efforts to create whitewater rafting, zip lining and other amusements along the downtown riverfront suffered a setback recently when the sole bid for an initial phase of work was $73 million, nearly double the estimated …
Water is one of those commodities, like dirt, that we Iowans have always had, but until relatively recently, we rarely questioned.
We treat it like air and expect every tap to provide clean water, in …
As I listen to some leaders or board directors talk about the desire for their company’s workforce to return to various pre-pandemic ways of working, I am reminded of one of my dad’s old sayings: …
Iowa State University is sending mixed messages.
At a time when ISU’s major-sport athletic teams have shown they can play at the highest levels, its academics appear to be sinking.
The contrast was obvious in …
Mariann Clark accomplished a lot in her 93 years as a nurse, executive, mentor, mother, wife and shoe model.
Four years ago when she retired from Iowa Methodist Medical Center, “it took about five people …
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship,” said Louisa May Alcott, the famous Civil War-era author and activist.
Alcott’s words, especially relevant for modern-day leaders who …
I thought all the talk about year-round daylight saving time was much ado about nothing, until I met my friend K.C. just off the sidewalk near Terrace Hill on Grand Avenue.
I say off the …
“We don’t know what we don’t know.”
That’s the crux of a recent essay by Jonathan Wilson in the Des Moines Register.
Wilson, a longtime Des Moines lawyer and former school board member, said the …
When I was growing up, I had a “working mother.” That is what women who worked outside the home were called in the ’60s and ’70s. For a mom to have a career was not …
The University of Iowa’s Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City and the Neal Smith Federal Building in Des Moines are faulty towers.
Both were erected with fanfare that dissipated into disappointment as flaws were …
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