I have many fond memories of growing up in the Tama-Toledo area such as having spaghetti suppers at Big T with friends, running into people at Fareway who wanted to discuss the Trojan football season, and playing little league games at the Toledo Heights. The community has also been very ...

Faculty have returned to our campuses, our admissions offices are working feverishly to register students, and all of the last minute details are in full swing as we launch another academic year at our colleges. Next to graduation, the return of our students and the excitement generated from ...

"If I were the owner of the team and I knew there was a name of my team - even if it had a storied history - that was offending a sizable group of people, I'd think about changing it." U.S. President Barack Obama.We live in an era where cultural misrepresentation is rampant. Over the years, ...

We are creatures of comfort and love predictability - change tends to make us uncomfortable. As my wife would say, she likes a "Calm Pond"- no waves and therefore no change. We tend to get into patterns of expectancy that we always want to be the same with calm water! We expect everything to be ...

For more than a decade, that has been a common and constant refrain. While working at washingtonpost.com, the Guardian US, and now, the Newspaper Association of America, I have been asked frequently about the state of the industry as people search for the worst.Though newspaper media is ...

Liberals decry the fact that the minimum wage hasn't been raised since 2009, and talk about "income inequality" and "fairness." So how much is the minimum wage, who earns it, and why?The Federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, before overtime. When first established in 1938 it was 25 cents. ...

To say technology has changed the newspaper media industry is understating the obvious.While much discussion focuses on how we read the news, technology is changing the way we report the news. The image of a reporter showing up to a scene with a pen and a pad is iconic but lost to the vestiges ...

Higher education faces many problems today, but one of the most serious problems is the decline in traditional liberal arts curriculum. This is especially true when examining the alarming crisis in civic education. Anne D. Neal, President of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), ...

State Senator Steve Sodders of State Center will co-chair a bipartisan legislative review of the effectiveness of a new Iowa legalizing the use of medical cannabis oil.During the 2014 session, Democrats and Republicans in the Iowa Legislature overwhelmingly voted to allow Iowa families to ...

Iowa is proof that clean energy works. We lead the nation in wind power generation and in biofuels production. We also rank among the top 12 states in the nation when it comes to energy efficiency.These successes have not come about by accident. Iowa is responding to the growing demand for ...