Summer is just around the corner, and for many people, it’s a time to reset, recharge — and maybe even rethink their goals. At Iowa Valley Community College District, we’re making it easier than ever for students to stay on track or get ahead with fast, flexible, and affordable options ...

Two wrongs do not make a right. There’s really no argument on that point. But morality, morals, right, wrong and politics are easy to grapple with from the sidelines when you are inclined to think both political parties have lost their minds. Thus we arrive at the group chat from ...

On Tuesday of this week we passed a bill that was special to our district. House File 933 was a bill that implemented a new license for pediatric palliative care, a type of hospice specifically for children. There are currently only three such facilities in the United States, none in Iowa. The ...

In the face of rising costs for Iowans, the Governor and Republican lawmakers are pushing two bills this session that would make life even tougher for many Iowa families. The first could take away healthcare from up to 182,000 Iowa families. Currently, those families receive healthcare ...

For many in our caucus, there is nothing we have heard louder or clearer than the call from landowners to protect their private property rights from eminent domain abuse by CO2 pipeline projects. This week we passed two bills containing many policies to provide those protections. This is not ...

We had to be at the University of Iowa Hospital at 5:30 in the morning for Ginnie’s hysterectomy. We were there on time and I was whisked away to a waiting room. This was to be a day all about Ginnie, of course. But I wasn’t feeling well, and hadn’t felt well for a couple of days. I ...