Editorials

The 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference that ended last week in Egypt brought mostly disappointing results.

Last week, a journalist faced trial for reporting the news. This week, another journalist faces a similar trial.

There’s a lot of data when it comes to schools. Generally, it’s housed at the state or federal level. At a mere whim, you can see enrollment data, the number of students in special education, the results of standardized testing, how many teachers there are in relation to students, you name it.

Gov. Kim Reynolds was not too happy with a question from the Associated Press’ David Pitt on Tuesday.

Gov. Reynolds has a cart-before-horse problem. First: Order masks to reduce virus spread. Then open schools.

A bipartisan bill in the U.S. House of Representatives would be a good step toward protecting the future of journalism.

If you reside in a nursing home and are not getting needed care, you might be afraid to complain. You don’t want to offend or anger the people who feed and bathe you. You don’t want to be labeled uncooperative and discharged.

A new trade agreement connecting the United States, Canada and Mexico is a good deal for Iowa’s farmers.

Walmart announced Wednesday it would become the largest chain in America that will require customers to wear face coverings in their stores.

It’s been more than a month since the Polk County prosecutor’s office charged a journalist for failing to disperse during a protest in Des Moines.

If it had been up to John Adams, Independence Day would have been celebrated on the second of July.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday needlessly poked a hole in Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between church and state.” By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled in a case from Montana that if a state provides a tax break that benefits students at a secular private school, it must include private rel…

Making voting less accessible to eligible voters is wrong, and that’s just what lawmakers in Iowa have done.

Wednesday’s Iowa Court of Appeals decision on the Larry Clabaugh case was a welcome result. It needs to be the last word.

I have been here in town now for more than two weeks. It has been a lot of fun so far getting to know the staff here at the Oskaloosa Herald, as well as the two other newspapers I am tasked with supervising—the Pella Chronicle and the Knoxville Journal Express.

Donald Trump treats the First Amendment like a real estate holding. When it helps him, he likes it, and when it hurts him, he hates it.

Too many people don’t like the news media because of the conventional notion, advanced by our critics, that journalists are cavalier with the facts and report the news with bias.