Iowa is a state that is known to be very lax where animal rights and protections are concerned. As the Quad-City Times reported recently,...

Summertime and the living is not so easy for the 12% to Iowans  who are experiencing food insecurity. Summer months mean that many children...

According to a report on the CNN website, 43% of American Families are living over their heads. "Nearly 51 million households don...

I have been a follower of Iowa politics since I moved to the state in 1999 and cut my teeth at the Cedar County Democrats caucus in 2000. N...

The six Democrat gubernatorial candidates debated last evening on IPT  for 90 minutes. It was at times lively and informative. Themes that ...

As has been widely reported, Arizona Senator John Kyl was caught in a bald-faced lie about the amount of funding that goes toward abortion s...

Happy Belated New Year. After 4 years and a month of commenting on politics, progressive and otherwise, I am continuing my last year trend o...

As expected, it was a good night to be a Republican candidate for state office, an incumbent running for re-election for Congress from Iowa,...

Prognostication is subject to a lot of skepticism, and rightly so, particularly if there are based on mostly conjecture and a little bit of ...

Primaries for me are difficult to generate excitement over, but this one is interesting on a couple of fronts. Locally. Janelle Rettig's...

As the Iowa City Council will have one more vote on the extended panhandling ordinance tentatively on June 1st. Fair-minded people should as...

While out of state in Ohio this past weekend, I felt badly for missing Gov. Culver's visit to the Hamburg Inn for a chat with The People...

So the two parties have had their conventions and (D) Janelle Rettig and (R) Lori Cardella are their parties' candidates. If there is an...

To the point that Roxanne Conlin entered the race to be the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, scarcely a peep had been made by the state...

A meeting at Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist on Saturday brought social justice activists from liberal faith communities in Waterloo,...

I received this from State Representative Vicki Lensing: As part of the federal economic recovery program, Iowa has received $11 million to ...

An effort to bring Sarah Palin to the Iowa Family Policy Center's banquet next month has left a bad taste in the mouths of many state...

With the benefits for Iowa's unemployed expiring, the US Senate continues to quibble over who should qualify for an extension of benefit...

The City Council has two more readings of the controversial minor curfew and loitering ordinances. Below are links to both. While FAIR!, th...

Amy Logsdon provided this link to this Citizens for Tax Justice proposals to pay for health care without hurting the bottom 60% of taxpaye...