Editorial

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

Vision Iowa helped transform Storm Lake’s north shore with King’s Pointe, Awaysis Park and camping improvements thanks to a $9 million state investment on a $40 million project. It rebooted Dubuque with a river museum. Sioux Center got a big grant. Towns big and small all over Iowa restored buildings and civic pride, launched new recreation attractions and built cultural heritage. That singular program was the product of divided government.

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

If the Republican apparatus were functioning properly, we would have had a farm bill signed by the President by now. But because of dysfunction in the administration, infighting among regions and deep differences among GOP factions in the House and Senate, the last farm bill expired on Sept. 30. And that farm bill came about two years after the previous farm bill expired, thanks to the House Freedom Caucus.

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

EDITORIAL

BY ART CULLEN

The best shot Republicans have laid on Fred Hubbell yet is that he ran Younkers Department Stores when the Iowa retail icon started to slide south, and that the Hubbell family sold Equitable of Iowa insurance company to the Dutch. All true. If that is the best they can lead with, they don’t have much of a case against the Des Moines Democrat running to unseat the appointed Gov. Kim Reynolds.

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.