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Opinion

For non-depressing, non-political news — turn to science

Columnists

Maybe you’re getting a little stressed out. Let’s say it’s increasingly difficult to ignore the political news these days — the stuff about the looming government shutdown, the tariffs, the Tesla sitting on the White House front lawn, the green-card-carrying legal resident of the U.S. ...

Sweeney From the Senate

Columnists

Senator Mark Daly from Ireland visited this week. Relations with Ireland date back many years. Ireland has a historic role in 1775 at the battle of Lexington and Concord when the American War of Independence began. Introducing Sweeney’s intern: My name is Emily Bray and I am a junior at ...

Junk mail

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Dear MetroNet and I’mOn, I’d just like to explain — again — that I’m not interested in your service at this time, as I’ve graciously explained to your sales reps who have visited my home. So PLEASE stop sending me an offer EVERY OTHER DAY in the mail. Thank you. P.S. Would ...

The Warme Wire: A wide range of bills under consideration

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With the first funnel behind us, this week we focused on floor debate and passed around thirty bills addressing a wide range of issues, from emergency medical services to commercial driver’s license requirements, to statutes of limitations and even gift card fraud. One bill that I’m ...

Clearing the air on the Library Association bill

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House File 880 (Formerly HF 284) is a bill that seeks to prevent Iowa Libraries from being members of the Iowa Library Association and the American Library Association (ALA) by restricting funds to them if they are dues paying members of these organizations. Those dues are paid for by taxpayer ...