Iowa lawmakers made property taxes the defining issue of their 2026 session, and the overhaul Gov. Kim Reynolds signed in May limits how much more counties and cities can collect just because property values rise. Washington is heading the other direction, with proposals that would bill ...
Who actually uses and depends on data centers? The short answer is: almost everyone. They are woven into nearly every aspect of our modern lives. Businesses and institutions of all sizes lease data center resources to host their applications, save information, and store files. They depend on ...
Our Nation declared independence from Great Britain 250 years ago on July 4, 1776. 143 years later, in 1919, our nation’s 28th President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first “Armistice Day” to mark the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I. And, 35 years after that, in 1919, our ...
Beyond the sadness and loss of life, there is something troubling about a car-pedestrian accident last September 25 in Urbandale that took the life of Jasmira Kadic, 60, and seriously injured her husband. The tragedy is heartbreaking. It forever changed two families and deeply affected their ...
My dad sent me a vat of olive oil from the village in Greece recently -- by which I mean to say that he shipped it months ago, paying 30 euros to have it stacked on a slow boat from Piraeus by way of a company named after a Greek god. I had not asked for the olive oil and didn't really want ...
Tuesday's election wasn't a blue wave or even a blue tsunami: It was a blue apocalypse. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who leads the one notable bright spot on the map, referred to the wipeout as "close to an extinction-level event" for the GOP. It was the worst midterm defeat for one party in ...
