If this keeps up, the Roosevelt Speech and Debate program under coach Harry Strong is going to rank alongside the UCLA Bruins basketball teams under John Wooden or the Iowa Hawkeye wrestling teams under Dan Gable in terms …

Yesterday U.S. Senator Tom Harkin was at Camp Dodge, bestowing some overdue medals on soldiers who earned them long ago. This morning, at the Mitchell Education Center, he presided over a hearing about the importance of expanding access …

Backstage at Hoover High School, Sawa Kuku and her friends giggle nervously. The three girls from Ethopia are getting ready to go onstage in front of a large crowd in the Hoover High School auditorium. They’re dressed in …

Maybe you thought spirits were low on the Northside after the North Polar Boys’ loss in the basketball sub-state semifinals ended an inspiring season sooner than everyone hoped. But spirits in that part of town have never been …

In life the seemingly best-laid plans in action oft times are really just smooth improvisation. Practice and improv are contradictory terms, aren’t they? Not necessarily. It’s possible to work at spontaneity and thinking on one’s feet, and that’s …