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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 07/18/2018 - 9:23am
EDITORIALS
BY ART CULLEN
President Trump’s behavior is hard to explain, especially among his friends. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst have been fumbling and mumbling about the North American Free Trade Agreement and tariffs on China, and how soybean prices have tanked because of trade turmoil. The commodity groups don’t quite know what to say, for fear of further confusing Grassley and Ernst. Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig is in a world of hurt as he tries to fend off a strong Democratic challenge from Tim Gannon.
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clare@stormlake.com on Fri, 07/13/2018 - 9:05am
EDITORIALS
BY ART CULLEN
Stacey Cole takes up a huge job as Storm Lake schools superintendent with one most challenging task immediately in front of her: getting a new early childhood education center built without use of a sales tax. The need is obvious, the site selected and planning underway for a December vote that will ask for a $31 million project to be paid primarily by property taxes. That’s a heavy lift, amounting to an extra $120 on the property tax bill of a home assessed at $100,000.
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clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 07/11/2018 - 9:21am
EDITORIALS
BY ART CULLEN
Three cheers to the Storm Lake City Council for finally loosening up on sidewalk sales along downtown Lake Avenue. The council has agreed to allow merchandising, within limits, on the sidewalks and for café seating outdoors — a touch of the City of Lights in The City Beautiful. It should create a little more festive atmosphere downtown and invite people to linger.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Fri, 07/06/2018 - 8:53am
EDITORIALS
BY ART CULLEN
For those skeptical of climate change, we offer last year and this year as evidence that there is something strange going on. Sheets of rain followed by deep spates of heat and drought are the characteristics going back actually far more than two years — in fact, at least to the early 1980s. We are having 100-year floods in Des Moines every five years, and 500-year floods every decade. The century references become almost meaningless.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Tue, 07/03/2018 - 8:55am
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clare@stormlake.com on Fri, 06/15/2018 - 9:02am
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 06/13/2018 - 8:53am
EDITORIALS
BY ART CULLEN
The photo was striking and remains vivid: Citizens First National Bank Chairman George Schaller with that dead-serious look on his face, palms spread up splayed on the conference table, leaning forward. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley sat opposite him, reclining back and away from the advancing Schaller with his chin resting on folded hands.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 05/30/2018 - 8:50am
EDITORIALS
BY ART CULLEN
Sen. Nate Boulton’s political demise for being exposed as an oaf and groper blew Fred Hubbell into Storm Lake last Sunday with a wind at his back. Hubbell leads the Democratic gubernatorial field of six (Boulton suspended his campaign) at about 31% as of last week, according to the Iowa Poll. Boulton was second. To avoid a nominating convention, Hubbell needs to win at least 35% of the June 5 Democratic primary vote. That should not be too tall a task.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Fri, 05/25/2018 - 8:46am
EDITORIALS
BY ART CULLEN
We have heard the complaint come up again, for the umpteenth time, about publicity surrounding crime in Storm Lake spreading far and wide. We have heard that some people are chirping about the police tamping down these press releases. So we will trot out the argument again: Police are required by the Iowa Public Records Law (Chapter 22, Iowa Code) to make available the immediate facts and circumstances surrounding any incident.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 05/23/2018 - 9:02am
