Opinion

Governors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations to lure them to move to our cities is good public policy, because...

These days, I wonder what Molly Ivins would think of today’s politics. Those of us who were fans called her Molly even if we...

The campaign to pass the Danish Plan began in August 1976 with a panicked phone call to me from Councilwoman and future Mayor Ruth Correll. She wanted to know why the Danish Plan (officially called the Slow Growth ordinance) didn’t exempt affordable housing from its ...

According to a story in the Des Moines Register and reports elsewhere, it seems that a lot of the world’s anti-GMO propaganda is being...

Almost 1 million American jobs were lost to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), according to a narrow U.S. government measure. More are...

The Koch Brothers believe that their great wealth entitles them to rule over the many — so, for decades, they’ve been running a surreptitious...

There was no official commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution last year. Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, asked, “What is there to...

Response to a nonsensical letter I felt compelled to respond to the Feb. 11, 2016 letter from Michelle Kretzer of the PETA Foundation in Norfolk,...

On the fracking moratorium Our elected officers have an inherent duty to protect our quality of life. Water is life. On Tuesday, July 14 at...

Ballot initiatives protect communities from fracking...

Who does David Keating think he’s fooling...

There is a controversy among Republican leaders about publicly declaring what the GOP would do if it won back Congress and the presidency. The GOP...