Little Village’s “First in the Nation” election coverage team filed dispatches from the first Presidential Debate. Detroit-based Katie McGowan went to Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe & Bookstore in the Highland Park […]
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October 3: Lights Out on the Coralville Strip
Little Village’s “First in the Nation” election coverage team filed dispatches from the first Presidential Debate. Jon Winet visited the GOP Headquarters in Coralville. Just behind the Peking Buffet, just […]
American Reason on KRUI: 10/14/2012
This week on American Reason we discussed women’s education in Pakistan and the vice presidential debate. Direct Link: October 14, 2012 Subscribe: iTunes
The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Coverage of the 2012 Republican National Convention.
The delegates at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte reflected the nation’s current and evolving demographics, with a generous mix of Americans of all ethnicities. In contrast, despite what one can […]
A Night in Theatre: Coverage of the 2012 Democratic National Convention
As Senator Edward Kennedy’s voice reverberates through the hall, I feel a curious quickening. I lift my eyes to the mega screen suspended from the ceiling of the Arena. There […]
Astrology Forecast for October 2012
FOR EVERYONE—Opportunity with challenges. October is the beginning of the end of the uncertainty of recent times. People will make decisions, bringing order and direction to events, at last. The […]
Haulin’ Ass: F O H T S W
Standing on the West Bank corner, a shirtless man wears a bib of dried blood and bellows long, singular tones like a throat singer. People stare but no one […]
Opinion: 40 Years of Fighting for Feminist Health Care
The year is 1973. The Vietnam War is ending. The Watergate hearings are beginning. The World Trade Center is completed, making it the world’s tallest building. A gallon of gas […]
Ask Dr. J: The Proof is in the Procymidone
I’ve been bombarded with questions this month asking whether or not organic food is more nutritious and worth the extra money, and I’m not surprised. There has been a lot […]
UR Here: Open Spaces
In the days when prairies stretched from river to river across the expanse of what we now call Iowa, bison disturbance was essential to the health of the ecosystem. As […]
Letters: My Brilliant (Bicycle) Traffic Ticket
On a beautiful Saturday in June, with the scent of burning automobile tires still in the air, I received my first bicycle traffic ticket in 40 years of cycling. That […]
American Reason on KRUI: 10/7/2012
This week on American Reason we discussed the first presidential debate of the season and an atheist lobbying group in Iowa. Direct Link: October 7, 2012 Subscribe: iTunes