By Mike Fallon, Iowa City Jacob Simmering’s recent letter to the editor (April 11, 2024) is an argument based on circular reasoning or logic. Simmering’s argument begins where he wants […]
Opinion
Letter to the editor: Embrace pops of color in your lawn
By Linda Quinn & Mary Dix, Iowa City Do you have a plant out of place in your lawn? Those out-of-place pops of color in our yards have gotten a bad […]
Letter to the editor: Is it worth saving an unsellable building?
By Jacob Simmering, Iowa City I read Thomas Argan’s letter with interest. I agree completely that the Slezak-Holub-Skarda building is an attractive building that survived the era of urban renewal […]
Letter to the editor: The city’s hesitation to landmark the Slezak-Holub-Skarda building should concern us
By Thomas Agran, Iowa City On April 2, the Iowa City City Council deferred a vote on landmarking the lovingly maintained Slezak-Holub-Skarda building, or more affectionately known as the Pagliai’s […]
‘The you is a door’: Abdurraqib sets high bar for Mission Creek 2024
Iowa City’s Mission Creek Festival (which just kicked off its 19th year) has always fundamentally been about two things: creative place-making and wild moments of synchronicity. As such, it could have had no better opening than Thursday night’s reading by author and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.
Letter to the editor: It’s time for Republican politicians to stop ripping off Iowa taxpayers
By Joe Bolkcom, Iowa City For the past eight years Iowa taxpayers have been victims of a massive Ponzi scheme. One where we have paid our hard-earned taxes for things […]
Letter to the editor: An embarrassing vote from Miller-Meeks
By Don Paulson, Letts What an embarrassment to the people of eastern Iowa. Republican U.S. Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks voted “yes” to impeach the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security […]
Op-ed: Conservative politics depend on disremembering
By gregory wickencamp, Iowa City “Separate accommodations are not inherently unequal,” according to a new Iowa bill targeting trans people. Read that again. If those words sound familiar, they should. […]
Letter to the editor: SSB 3131 is end game for Iowa libraries
By Sam Helmick, Iowa City Iowans before us understood why the legal liabilities and complex policies inherent to library (First Amendment) services require specific and robust management to successfully steward […]
Letter to the editor: Hungry and cost-burdened Iowans deserve better from state lawmakers
By Mandi Remington, Iowa City, director of the Corridor Community Action Network January is Poverty Awareness Month, a time to reflect on the persistent struggles faced by so many. Recent […]
Letter from Laura Bergus and V Fixmer-Oraiz: It’s time we talked about authoritarianism in Iowa
The following is co-written by Laura Bergus, Iowa City city councilor, and V Fixmer-Oraiz, Johnson County Supervisor Laura Bergus: In the summer of 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, […]
Letter to the editor: By rezoning the old Kirkwood campus, Iowa City is turning their backs on Southeast District residents
By Anne Marie Kraus, Iowa City The proposed rezoning of the Kirkwood Community College Campus (on Muscatine Avenue) from P-1 to I-1 (General Industrial) for the benefit of Procter and […]