Editorial

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

A little boy from 22 years ago was top of mind last Thursday as President Trump bloviated on the TV during his visit to Iowa, where he closed a jobs-training roundtable with another tirade on immigration. “We can’t have people with open borders,” the President said at Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta, a 15-minute drive from Dubuque.

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

Sen. Chuck Grassley’s press aide would like us to publish a correction: In our July 18 editorial we said that Grassley “said nothing” in the face of the Trump Administration’s reckless trade war that has soybean prices tanking, Iowa manufacturing hurting and a lot of Iowans wondering why our senior senator is in lockstep with this corrupt and compromised President. Well, Grassley has said something. To wit:

This editorial from the first issue of The Storm Lake Times, June 29, 1990, expresses the philosophy that gov­erns this news­pa­per. It is published annually on the anniversary of The Times founding as an affirmation of our principles.

EDITORIAL

BY JOHN CULLEN

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pur­suit of Happiness.

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

Iowa is sorely in need of a course correction. All-Republican control of the levers of government is tilting us off into the ditch — our rivers are polluted, our soil disappearing, our schools eroding and our rural prospects dimming. Our health care system for the working poor, disabled and elderly infirm was reformed by the current administration into a fiscal disaster shrouded in secrecy. Our schools are being starved. We have gone too far in one direction.

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

  — Mark 10:13-16

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

As Mike Naig won the Republican nomination for agriculture secretary at the state convention Saturday, President Donald Trump handed a cudgel to the Democratic opponent Tim Gannon. Trump ordered tariffs on Chinese products, which caused the Chinese to slap retaliatory tariffs on American soy and pork. Naig was asked to explain by a reporter from Esquire Magazine. The Buena Vista University graduate and interim secretary of agriculture couldn’t.

Gannon did.

EDITORIALS

BY ART CULLEN

For all the sourness of politics, take heart: Nice guys can finish first. Congratulations to Kelly Snyder of Marathon, who beat incumbent Buena Vista County Supervisor Dale Arends of Newell, in the Republican primary election on Tuesday. Snyder is a nice man with a good heart. He is a retired sheriff’s deputy, and for a good cop has remarkably few enemies. Even the people in jail liked him. We do not know if they voted for him.