As a serious blogger, I look for the stories that no one else is covering. Occasionally I get lucky. Today I am sitting down with Baby New...

With 2009 just around the corner, who doesn't enjoy a little prognostication? The National Conference of State Legislatures has proposed...

After reading about the coal "fly ash" disaster in Tennessee where a billion gallons of coal slurry from a coal-fired power plant(...

With George Bush's Administration getting ready to leave time, you'd think it would be hard to get anything done if you were a lobby...

A CNN poll reports that 75% of those polled won't miss George W. Bush when he leaves office. However there is one man in the U.S. who w...

Apparently the President, like me, learned that one of his pardons the other day might not have been warranted. CNN reports: President Georg...

President Bush, who is not known for his generosity in granting pardons or commutations issued a couple of surprising one's today. Bush ...

Veterans from the Iraq war and Afghanistan are coming back to a country that is not well-prepared to deal with their many psychological need...

If things weren't bad enough in Michigan, the city council of Brighton has had it with people who "in a course of conduct or repeat...

Chet Culver, like Solomon, has said he will cut the state budget by 1.5% across the board. That's fair, right? No one gets special treat...

I am constantly amused by our universe, particularly that part where we human beings run the show. Case in point? Margaret Atwood has writte...

Local economies thrive on property and sales tax dollars and economic development is part of the foundation for both. In Iowa City, economic...

Image via Wikipedia I don't think I'm the only one who believes that there is only one "populist, progressive" in Iowa and...

Ed Fallon wrote this fine opinion piece that appeared in The Des Moines Register today in relatively similar form, entitled “Illinois seat n...

Barack Obama announced U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis as his choice for Labor Secretary. Solis is a five term Congresswoman from California and has a...

Barack Obama nominated one of "our own" to his cabinet. But is Tom Vilsack qualified to be Secretary of Agriculture? If by agricul...

It's perhaps a little early to wa poetic about the year that is (and soon will be was), but according to "Yale Book of Quotations...

Despite a twenty minute delay in Colorado so that an alternative elector could be seated, the Electoral College convened across the United S...

Surprise, a political appointee of President Bush not capable of leading a commission. While this story will probably not make the front pag...

Illinois' Governor Rod Blagojevich was wisked away from his Ravenswood neighborhood home early this morning to be formally indcicted wit...