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Columnists

Reproductive freedom isn’t just a buzzword

Sara Carspecken, a registered nurse in Fort Dodge, has been working in prenatal and postpartum care for more than 14 years. In those years, Sara has worked with women who struggle financially, who have a history of substance abuse, domestic abuse, and who are seeking mental health care. ...

What are our priorities?

We have made it past the second funnel week of the 2024 legislative session. I must say that I am very disappointed in the Senate for not taking up bills that would make the lives of Iowans easier and safer. They did not take action on many of the priority bills that Iowans have asked for and ...

These government officials did whaaaat?

What were they thinking? That is a question I ask myself a lot lately. Those were the first words out of my mouth when the Manhattan district attorney had to postpone Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial on the alleged hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels — the delay ...

President Biden’s $7.3 trillion budget is a recipe for disaster

More than a month after federal law requires it, President Biden finally submitted his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 to Congress. The $7.3-trillion price tag alone is reason enough to throw this budget in the trash where the rest of President Biden’s trillion-dollar spending packages ...

Shining a light on secret spending

Bureaucrats were busted trying to bamboozle taxpayers by hiding the shocking price tag of a pork project pushed by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Biden. A scathing new audit calls the scheme to bury a San Francisco area subway’s true costs a “breach in ...