Ban DEI comprehensively and achieve a colorblind society Recent community discussions in Ames revealed a pressing need to ban DEI-related programs and policies statewide. Many business and civic leaders agree that DEI efforts often backfire — they waste resources, complicate operations, and, ironically, harm the very minorities they aim to help. Half measures that exempt certain entities from DEI mandates only leave leaders caught between conflicting laws and the demands of an increasingly vocal ideological agenda. Ames Mayor John Haifa’s remark about a “label change” with no substantive shift in DEI hiring practices reflects this futile balancing act. The…..