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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 …
To Iowans it often appears that modern agriculture is built around four commodities – corn, soybeans, hogs and cattle – although that may be changing.
To be sure, there are reasons Iowa became a focal …
A lot happened in 2020. Let’s unpack the year and see what we can learn. I’ll start with the Iowa caucuses. The neighborhood political meetings had value nearly 50 years ago when the modern version …
The disconnect between Main Street and Wall Street is about as wide this year as at any time in memory. Main Street, as represented by the hospitality industry – hotels, taverns and neighborhood restaurants – …
Across America, the top issue on many minds as 2020 comes to a close is the economy. Iowa is no different – for many Iowans, it is their primary concern, second only to the coronavirus …
Not since Lyndon Baines Johnson has an incoming U.S. president had as much congressional experience as Joe Biden. Nor have we had a new chief executive with as much foreign policy experience since George Herbert …
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