Military leaders say they are angry and ashamed by a double-digit increase in assaults and a trio of high-profile sexual misconduct allegations against commanders charged with helping solve the problem. But after years of lip service and study, it will take more than apologies to prove they are serious about fixing the self-described “crisis” of sexual assault in the armed forces.
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The State of the Union, Gov. Terry Branstad’s shrewd move and another Democrat announces for 2014. This week’s episode features The Gazette’s political reporter James Lynch and columnist Todd Dorman, Quad City Times Statehouse Bureau Chief Mike Wiser and Waterloo-Cedar Falls political reporter Jon Ericson. The show was produced by The Gazette’s Max Freund and [...]
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Goodbye, 2012. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Good riddance to another banner year for bad news. Don’t believe me? Take a look at the Pew Research Center’s list of the year’s most-followed stories: Shootings of Trayvon Martin and in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., hurricanes Isaac and Sandy and [...]
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DES MOINES – State election officials confirmed Monday that the 1,589,899 Iowans who cast ballots last month was a record turnout for a presidential election. The Iowa Executive Council, acting as the state’s Board of Canvass, approved 2012 general election results compiled by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office that showed 73.28 percent of the [...]
continue »The Gazette Editorial Board —- For the past several months — especially since the national conventions that wrapped up in early September — this page has been filled with a wide variety of voices talking about candidates and election issues. As should be the case in a section devoted to viewpoints on topics important [...]
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DES MOINES — President Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan punctuated their 2012 campaigns with high-energy rallies Monday they each hope will deliver the final push that will propel them across the finish line in Iowa today. Thousands of Obama supporters filled the downtown streets last night around an East Village building [...]
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DES MOINES – GOP president candidate Mitt Romney told cheering Iowa supporters Sunday he’s counting on them to help punch his ticket to the White House on Tuesday. “I need your vote, I need your work, I need your help,” Romney told about 4,500 enthusiastic Iowans who turned out at Hy-Vee Hall for a [...]
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Often, newspaper endorsements are not universally endorsed. Shocking, I know. Some folks think we make lousy picks. Others believe we shouldn’t be picking at all. A few are elated by our decisions. Many of them work for the candidates we chose. Endorsements got a lot of attention this week. The Des Moines Register shocked [...]
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The contest for president comes down to a handful of swing states, then down to hotly contested Iowa, then down to a handful of tight counties. And America waits. For a week. “They keep talking about a 2,000-vote margin for the presidential race across the state,” said Linn County Auditor Joel Miller. “Linn County could [...]
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DES MOINES – Democrats boarded a bus Tuesday to make a final statewide sweep to close the deal for President Obama with Iowa voters and to implore them to cast their ballots early. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said America has gone “from the brink” of economic disaster in September 2008 when Lehman Brothers “went broke” [...]
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