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The epidemic curve for Scott County demonstrates we fell steeply from our November peak of 160 cases per day per 100,000 population and are ar…
It wasn’t my plan to retire in the middle of winter and months into a worldwide pandemic, but that’s the way it happened. I enjoyed my job, bu…
Neera Tanden became President Joe Biden’s first Cabinet casualty on Tuesday when she withdrew her nomination to be budget director. The Republ…
Iowa’s election system is clean, fair and above board.
Recently, one of United Way’s funded agencies invited me to hear from "Jeremy," a 17-year-old young man who was an accessory to a car theft th…
A few years ago, a student stopped by my office to talk about the paper she was writing for one of my courses. As often happens, we ended up t…
Like many who have been locked down at home this past year, I’ve been passing the time by binge-watching TV, mainly foreign series. Among the …
Control your own destiny or someone else will. Famed CEO Jack Welch’s timeless wisdom for business is equally true for public policy. Here in …
President Joe Biden has promised a foreign policy that aligns America’s power with its values. The crisis in the former Soviet republic of Geo…
As I was cleaning out my desk at the Quad-City Times, I pulled from the edges of my computer monitor several Scotch-taped Post-it notes of say…
As Congress advances a COVID-19 relief package that has called for a $15 national minimum wage by 2025, I am aware that some people think that…
What is the purpose of life? That’s the kind of question philosophers, theologians, and people in trying circumstances seek to resolve.
February is considered the rarest of months because no other month ends on the 28th or 29th. This is why the last day of February was chosen a…
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden revoked the permit to finish building the 1,700-mile Keystone Pipeline to carry oil from Alberta, …
SPRINGFIELD – At first, Olivia Hayse received an email from a stranger in Australia that claimed he wanted to donate more than $15,000 to her …
Opinion: I have never met a kind person I disliked, even if I disagreed with their politics or we had no interests in common.
Opinion: I have never met a kind person I disliked, even if I disagreed with their politics or we had no interests in common.
Episode 8: Also discussed is whether boycotts are an effective tactic to get companies to change their policies and why we should consider inc…
When I deliver lectures on pandemic ethics over Zoom — part of my job as a bioethicist — one of the questions I am asked with increasing frequ…
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For a person who has suffered a life-altering injury, incurred medical expenses or, even worse, lost the family breadwinner due to another par…
On paper, the United States is committed to withdrawing its last 2,500 troops from Afghanistan less than 10 weeks from now, on May 1. That's u…
More than a million Iowans voted early last election, by mail or in-person. Amid a pandemic, the state’s reliance on this widely accessible, w…
Since President Joe Biden took office, Iran’s regional proxies have been busy. This month alone, Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed credit for a d…
I received an email from a reader wondering what to feed deer in these harsh days of cold temperatures and deep snow.
RURAL AMERICA – Looking out a side window I was surprised to see footprints through the deep snow marching down un-shoveled steps to my baseme…
The states of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri have all introduced legislation this year that would set a minimum biodiesel standard in their fuel…
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