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

I attended last night's City Council meeting and it brought out a new understanding of how Iowa City's "diverse" downtown...

The issue of what to do about panhandling and other annoyances on the Ped Mall in Iowa City will likely to come to a head tonight with a gro...

It appears from the conversations and so on that I've had with people who attended the Democratic and Republican Party district conventi...

Everyone should know by now that Barack Obama is not a Socialist, not even close--c'mon look at the definition of the word. Socialism: A...

Iowa City residents are rightly concerned that affordable housing policy changes could affect the quality of life in our community. Ironical...

Image via Wikipedia Dear President Obama, You promised change and you have begun to deliver on that promise. By signing the Health Care bill...

Where we have arrived as a nation is a disdain for the Government we have elected, appointed, and volunteered to be a part of. But really, i...

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...

While glancing at the mirror the other day, I had the feeling that my hairline and the current state of American politics have a lot in comm...

Last night's gathering of interested folks at the Old Capitol Center to participate in the Project on Public Rhetoric Inquiry turned to ...

While a relative handful of people turned out for area Iowa Republican and Democratic mid-term caucuses, many stayed home. I was among them....

CNN reports that sources within the Obama administration are reporting that 47 detainees who are considered too dangerous to be released an...

Reading that John Edwards finally confessed to fathering a child with a woman he was having an affair with while his wife continues to battl...

The US Supreme Court's ruling today to allow corporations and unions to spemd freely from their coffers to influence politics in the Uni...

In my years being involved in the political process, I believed that party membership had it's privileges. However today, I am convinced...

The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States to mark the centennial of the Declaration of ...

Janelle Rettig, Lori Cardella, and Jim Knapp are running hard for the Johnson County Board of Supervisor's vacancy. As such, the campaig...

From Carol Spaziani, FAIR! Steering Committee member: FAIR! will be co-sponsoring with the League of Women Voters a forum for the candidates...

It is a tradition of the Fourth Estate to review the year as soon as it draws to an end. It sells papers, magazines, and brings in muchas ad...