To the members of the Iowa City Parks & Recreation Commission and City Council, We are writing to express our support for keeping the downtown Robert A. Lee (RAL) pool open and for making necessary repairs. Having attended several meetings […]
By Paul Deaton, Solon I’ve been with retired Admiral Michael Franken enough to know he would make an excellent U.S. Senator. My comparison is with Tom Harkin, with whom I also spent time. Harkin is arguably Iowa’s best senator to […]
By Natalie Sherman, Des Moines One decade in politics can seem like a lifetime, so several decades and ten terms in office is certainly a momentous feat. While some might be ready to back down after so many years in […]
By Jeanne Liston, North Liberty I dodged a bullet, twice. In the late sixties I was eighteen weeks pregnant when I began leaking amniotic fluid. My doctor hospitalized me immediately and started an IV of Pitocin to induce labor. He […]
By Don Paulson, Letts Has she no shame? Republican U.S. Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks has recently been blaming President Biden for inflation and high fuel prices, among other things. She surely knows that post-pandemic demand and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has […]
By Ed Flaherty, Iowa City, Veterans for Peace #161 In 1958, four Quaker sailors set off in their sailboat, the Golden Rule, from California with the Marshall Islands their destination. They intended to interpose themselves into the nuclear testing being […]
By Ellen Ballas, Iowa City Representatives Hinson and Miller-Meeks recently voted to: 1) prohibit women from crossing state lines for an abortion, and, 2) prohibit access to contraception. (HR 8378 & HR 8373) It’s indefensible that in 2022 we are […]
By Dave Bradley, West Liberty Iowa U.S. Senate candidate, Mike Franken, supports constitutionally protected abortion. Therefore, let’s consider Senator Chuck Grassley’s insidious role in the Supreme Court decision to end Roe. As Senate Judiciary Chair in 2016 Grassley held open […]
By Paul Deaton, Solon A lot changed in political campaigns since I worked my first for Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Democrats and Republicans are now at a place where established patterns repeat each cycle: marching in parades, having a booth […]
By Jeanne Liston, North Liberty In 1965 before I got married, I made an appointment with a physician for my first pelvic exam. After the exam I requested a prescription for birth control pills. He looked at me, shuffled through […]
Dear members of the Iowa City Parks and Recreation Commission and City Council, We write to express our concern that the proposed Robert A. Lee (RAL) pool closure will leave Iowa Citians, regardless of age, physical ability, mode of transportation, […]
By Mike Fallon, Iowa City This morning, my neighborhood park (Happy Hollow) was a total pigsty. Yesterday, rabble-rousers lit off fireworks for hours and trashed the park. A visit to the park this morning revealed spent fireworks debris, spilled food […]
