The next seven months are going to be divisive times in America. Once again, the suffocating partisanship that most of us abhor will be on display as we approach the November elections. Fasten your ...

The United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the country's founding document, in 2026. Twenty years later, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of ...

WASHINGTON – Declaring that “it’s time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past,’’ President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday called for a break from partisanship that ...

Dallas' city charter requires the mayor and council members to run and, hopefully, govern without party labels. The reason is that nonpartisan leadership at the level of government closest to ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It's been nearly a decade since the Legislature raised Iowa's minimum wage. Like so many issues in our ...