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Statewide Iowa (RI) – The Iowa GOP and a Republican who leads the Iowa Senate’s tax-writing committee say a property tax idea from Democrat Rob Sand, who’s running for governor, is unconstitutional.

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If you’re within a certain age bracket, you’ll remember the news being delivered with grave certainty: The iPod is going to end the album as we know it. Yet for as many 99-cent songs as were purchased ...

The Black Radio Experience, an offshoot of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, runs Friday through Sunday at the Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa. Now in its fourth year, the festival highlights Black ...

Winning isn't enough to satisfy Kendrick Lamar, our new undisputed pound-for-pound rap king, who unseated the streaming despot, presided over a summer of roasts, made a diss track a chart-topper and ...

It was a bad week for Bob Hope. In the latest Hooperating, he lost his position as the nation’s favorite radio comic when Fellow Funnyman Fred Allen tied him for first place. As if that weren’t bitter ...

You can often learn just as much—if not more—by examining the downtrodden periods of a genre as opposed to only looking at the highs. So, after we ranked the best years in rap history earlier this ...