I appreciate Sam Cohen January 12, 2026, essay, “All about Arabella Mansfield and 3 other Iowa women to made history.” Yet I must object to Cohen’s third paragraph in her discussion of Carrie Chapman Catt.
Some 40 years ago, my mother donated a 1915 landscape plan to the State Historical Society of Iowa’s (SHSI) library in Iowa City. The plan, a rare surviving hand-painted sketch by landscape...
As an Iowan, I've always been drawn to helping people. Growing up “Iowa nice” transformed into a desire to become a pediatrician, connecting with families like the ones I grew up alongside....
Despite overwhelming public outcry, Republicans in Congress passed their Big, Ugly Bill, which includes the largest cuts to health care in history. After years of expanding health care coverage...
After years of consolidation in the agriculture industry, just a handful of companies control how our water is treated. When political leaders and regulators were focused on ensuring a...
I recently traveled to Washington, D.C. with a group of Iowans to talk with my representative: Congressman Zach Nunn. We weren’t sightseeing. We were there because it’s clear to us our economy is...
The School Chaplain bill is currently rushing through the Iowa legislature – it’s now heading to the Iowa Senate floor as H.F. 884, having passed the House and gone through the Senate Education...
Before his appointment as U.S. Energy Secretary, Chris Wright was the CEO of Liberty Energy, North America's second largest fracking company. Wright recently asserted: "I am a climate realist....
Recently, an argument has been going around that goes like this: private schools are accredited to teach students, therefore they’re accountable to taxpayers. The problem with this argument is...
Over the past two weeks, Senate File 75, a bill exclusively and explicitly targeting counties with regent universities (Black Hawk, Johnson and Story), requires county supervisors to serve...
