My wife and I attended a wedding in the Okoboji area this past weekend. From our house, there were no direct routes. It meant a lot of backroads and two-lane highways. This is the perfect type of travel to see the past. The harvested fields gave off a dreary look as machinery was parked on the ...
As November begins, so does the busiest shopping season of the year. We’re familiar with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but let’s not overlook Small Business Saturday on Nov. 30 – a day dedicated to supporting the businesses that keep our communities vibrant and unique. On this day, shop ...
Remember the saying “Things aren’t always what they seem.” I had a chance to talk to John Cain, the North Tama Superintendent, about the no phone policy. I am in favor of the no phone policy. As we talked, I learned each classroom has a phone pouch. Whe the student enters the classroom ...
No matter what happens in this election, the government should work for the people. The government may not be perfect, but it should be here to help us on a federal, state, and local level. While the federal government can feel far away, a little-known part of the Biden administration is ...
Q: What is the Veterans History Project? A: Approved unanimously by Congress in 2000, the Veterans History Project came about through a grassroots effort to preserve the oral histories of America’s brave service men and women. The Library of Congress serves as the permanent repository for ...
Poll worker training for this election happened a few days ago, and like one big democratic family, the group of mostly retirees and grandparents (many of whom have been poll workers for a decade or more) reviewed again how to properly serve the public in the voting process. And while there ...
My girlfriend protests for what she believes in. She demonstrates. She wears costumes or t-shirts and carries signs. When she is in protest mode, she is in your face, and there is no mistaking what she believes in, or how she would like you to vote. As a pastor, I am prohibited from using my ...
We are on the brink of an irreversible global disaster that will imperil the very fabric of life on Earth according to “The 2024 State of the Climate Report” that was published recently in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience. This stark conclusion was the result of a study that tracked 35 ...
I read with interest the recent reporting on Mark Doland’s chickens finally coming home to roost. Doland’s rambling, dishonest response to the truth is, at best, laughable, and at worst, outright libelous. Having personally witnessed the unraveling of Mahaska County’s government under ...
You can tell it’s almost time to vote when harvest is wrapping up. We finished our beans several weeks ago, and we got our corn out the other day. Prices are too low and costs are too high, but we have our fingers crossed. Just like I have my fingers crossed that we’ll elect more state ...