As rowdy rioters outside the Capitol building on January 6 turned into a violent mob that overran security forces and forced elected officials into hiding, the nation was [...]
Iowa’s representatives reflect on the storming and rioting of the United States Capitol Around midday on January 6, former President Donald Trump gave a speech at a [...]
Karen Maine is an Iowa native, a Dowling Catholic High School graduate and, more recently, the writer and director of “Yes, God, Yes,” a movie that recently trended on [...]
Student loan debt neared $1.6 trillion in the United States, Forbes reported in February. The financial burden of public and private education impacts millions of Americans [...]
Montay McDaniel II was born and raised in Sacramento, California. McDaniel took his first college class in the sixth grade. It was an introductory math class. With the [...]
The year 2009 was a terrible year to be graduating and entering the job market. The recession had made jobs scarce, and even though starting a small business had never been [...]
When we talk about confessions, what automatically comes to mind? Is it the Usher song “Confession” or when you walk into a church to confess your sins? There are [...]
When asked the question, “What’s the biggest problem we face in America today?” what would your answer be? Some might say the economic status of our [...]
Bars and restaurants throughout Des Moines cannot function without customers. But many once-bustling establishments have become ghost towns in recent months, with no one on [...]
Pacific Islander. Asian. Latino. African-American. Caucasian. Native American. black. There are many racial and ethnic identifiers, yet disparities exist. Should the word [...]