Wednesday was Arts Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill in Des Moines and singers from Findley Elementary set the tone in both chambers of the state legislature. Instead of bringing down the house, the medley of Song of Iowa …

We met Abdul Fattah Tameem, Ghazweh Aljabooli and their five children last summer when the first family of Syrian refugees to find its way to Iowa was part of a group from all over the world taking a …

The acronym is BAH but nothing could be more misleading when it comes to Brody After Hours. BAH is the Brody branch of 21st Century Community Learning Center afterschool enrichment that will launch another six-week batch of programming next …

Movement 515 never lets MLK Day pass without some passion. Whether it’s a rally on the statehouse steps or a spirited march through the downtown Des Moines skywalks, the student-activists always take advantage of the day off from …

Let it not get lost in the shuffle of state legislatures convening and presidential administrations transitioning that this is Teacher Appreciation Week. That important stretch of a generally cold page on the calendar is certainly not lost on …