Wanna solution for being miserable? Read Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables.” English Translation: “The Miserables” or “The Wretcheds.” Hugo’s nineteenth century historical novel is 1,200 pages long. On Kindle it cost me ninety-nine cents. It’s a classic and has been around a long ...
The two most recent polls — Gotham and Siena — on the New York City mayoral race, show Democrat candidate Zohran Mamdani leading Andrew Cuomo, running second as an independent, by 18 and 19 points respectively. Mamdani defeated Cuomo in the Democratic primary in June, garnering 56.39 ...
Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) changes the lives of nearly one in eight people in central Iowa, around 25,000 people per year. Poverty isn’t unique to us — it touches nearly every town and county in the U.S., but what is happening in Marshall County, Iowa, isn’t the same as in Dallas ...
Credit where it’s due: President Trump has a talent for getting the chattering classes talking about whatever he wants. Especially when he really doesn’t want them talking about other stuff. That’s how we should view Trump’s latest drama in Washington, D.C., where he mobilized the ...
This is the final month for Governor Reynolds’ Healthy Kids Iowa (HKI) program. Since June, the state has been providing a food box per school-age child each month — instead of putting funds directly on an electronic card (known as Summer EBT) that eligible families can use at local ...
Why do the world’s poor make a beeline for New York City? It is now home to over 3 million immigrants, the largest influx coming from the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Guyana, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and India. How can these overwhelmingly poor new arrivals stay if no one can ...