I lay awake on Tuesday night, trying to remember where I’d been.

More Iowans are going back to work after a new proclamation from Gov. Kim Reynolds. Starting May 22, movie theaters, zoos, aquariums and museums will be able to reopen as long as they can accommodate reasonable public health measures. Pools will only be allowed to reopen for lap swimming and…

The Iowa Legislature will reconvene on Wednesday, June 3. The biggest job will be passing a budget for the coming fiscal year that begins July 1. I believe that the Revenue Estimating Conference will meet before we reconvene. The REC meets periodically and makes estimates of incoming revenue…

Gov. Kim Reynolds began to loosen some public health measures earlier this week. Listed here are some types of businesses that may now begin to reopen.

Our national dialogue is consumed with discussion about health, safety, freedoms and liberties. There is no doubt Iowans are concerned about these important matters. It is vital to find a balancing act between protecting the public health and ensuring the continuation of civil society.

I know of no formula that tells us how to weigh health risks to our citizens, and the damage to our economy and way of life caused by prolonged shutting down of part of our economy. I think most of us agree that we cannot continue the shutdown of a significant part of our economy for too lon…

Last year I was driving from my Air BnB in Coralville to the University of Iowa baseball field when I hit a traffic jam. Now baseball doesn’t usually attract those kinds of crowds, so it took a while for me to understand that I was inching along Hawkins Drive in Iowa City because of the floo…