“Who would have thought?”
The question came from deep inside the furry hood of an oddly yellow parka. The long canary-colored coat sat atop a pair of five-buckle galoshes and was approaching from the east …
In a recent column about the future of food, I noted the lack of imagination in Iowa’s two-crop rotation of corn and soybeans, much of which is grown for fuel.
The column prompted Thomas Dorr …
Forty years ago, Archer Daniels Midland Co. announced plans to build the world’s largest ethanol plant in Des Moines. Ground was never broken and ADM’s elaborate plans soon faded, but four decades later that announcement …
When I saw a recent Fortune magazine article titled “Women accounted for 100% of the 140,000 jobs shed by the U.S. economy in December,” I did a double take. One hundred percent? How could that …
Historian Jill Lapore traces the origin of climate-change science to two events during the 1960s. One was the discovery that above-ground testing of nuclear weapons was depleting the earth’s protective ozone layer; the other was …
“Boy, were you wrong,” said a muffled voice that approached from the east as I neared Terrace Hill on my daily walk. Beneath the furry hood and orange scarf, I could barely make out the …
Submitted by: Carl Voss, Des Moines City Council; Emily Webb, Broadlawns board of trustees; Eric Burmeister, executive director, Polk County Housing Trust Fund; Leah Rudolphi, Des Moines community volunteer; Matt Unger, CEO, DMARC; Tim Lane, Iowa …
Our health care system is tied up in knots to the point where it has not been able to respond effectively to the pandemic.
We are the only major country in the world that does …
The past year has been a “perfect storm” of five global crises: pandemic, economic, racial, climate and leadership. And the polarization of society is on top of all of these challenges. As one crisis builds …
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 …
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