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Editorials

Don’t Mess with Renewables

Iowans know there's no use messing with Mother Nature during a summer thunderstorm. The occasional power outage triggered by severe weather requires households to ride out the storm without electricity. Some families may welcome a reprieve from so-called screen time. For others, the novelty ...

Don’t Mess with Renewables

Iowans know there's no use messing with Mother Nature during a summer thunderstorm. The occasional power outage triggered by severe weather requires households to ride out the storm without electricity. Some families may welcome a reprieve from so-called screen time. For others, the novelty ...

Veto of MHI Funding Hurts Vulnerable Iowans

As part of ongoing efforts to improve mental health services, we voted this year to make it easier for Iowans to receive mental health and substance abuse treatment closer to home. This included a bipartisan plan to keep all four of Iowa's mental health institutes (MHIs) operating.Republican ...

The Dengler Domain: Writing

Writing has stood the test of time. For most of time, writing could be looked at as a work of art, but computers have taken this fact away. One example is cursive writing. This style of writing is out of fashion and today's youth do not go through the struggles of wondering why a z looks like a ...

Veto of MHI Funding Hurts Vulnerable Iowans

As part of ongoing efforts to improve mental health services, we voted this year to make it easier for Iowans to receive mental health and substance abuse treatment closer to home. This included a bipartisan plan to keep all four of Iowa's mental health institutes (MHIs) operating.Republican ...

Health Care Law Upheld, But Flaws Remain

The Supreme Court upheld a key piece of the President's health care law. I respect the court's role in our system of government, but Obamacare remains a terrible law. It's led to too many people losing the coverage they had and spending more for what coverage they can get. Iowans tell me ...

Health Care Law Upheld, But Flaws Remain

The Supreme Court upheld a key piece of the President's health care law. I respect the court's role in our system of government, but Obamacare remains a terrible law. It's led to too many people losing the coverage they had and spending more for what coverage they can get. Iowans tell me ...

Slices of Life – Raising enlightened men

They were fighting again. I could hear them downstairs. There was a moderate-level crash and then muffled sounds, like maybe somebody got pushed or bumped up against a piece of furniture. It grew quiet, so I knew someone was injured. Not bad enough for the ER or anything, but maybe a stubbed ...

Slices of Life – Raising enlightened men

They were fighting again. I could hear them downstairs. There was a moderate-level crash and then muffled sounds, like maybe somebody got pushed or bumped up against a piece of furniture. It grew quiet, so I knew someone was injured. Not bad enough for the ER or anything, but maybe a stubbed ...

The Dengler Domain: Writing

Writing has stood the test of time. For most of time, writing could be looked at as a work of art, but computers have taken this fact away. One example is cursive writing. This style of writing is out of fashion and today's youth do not go through the struggles of wondering why a z looks like a ...