Imagine 1,500 foreigners showing up in rural Iowa who can’t speak English, are pacifists, refuse to take loyalty oaths, live communally with no pay, and shun social convention. Arrest them! …

With hope for the holidays in his heart, Sen. Chuck Grassley predicted — when the Storm Lake Times Pilot prodded — that a farm bill should pass by Christmas. It is three years overdue already. A …

President Trump and the ayatollahs blew up any hopes of taming inflation with renewed bombing of Iran and the Persian Gulf, just as fuel prices were softening. Gas jumped and stocks slumped when …

Clean air and water should be non-partisan goals for Iowa, which has serious pollution and health issues. We’re encouraged by the discussion taking place across the state and across the political …

Chris Jones and his boss at the water works used to ask as they gathered daily to discuss the roiling river’s polluted water: “Where’s the outrage?” Iowans are freaking out over our …

Our neighbors living here under Temporary Protected Status from places like Haiti, Cuba or Central America are in immediate danger of deportation to places of chaos and mayhem now that the US Supreme …

“I am apt to believe that [Independence Day] will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts …

Our region is attracting attention from renewable energy developers and opposition from suspicious neighbors. Cherokee County is trying to assemble an ordinance governing solar arrays and battery …

Two million Knicks fans reveled in lower Manhattan for a ticker-tape parade last Thursday morning as I skedaddled to LaGuardia for country roads to take me home. What an awful place, huh? Worse …

Republican senate candidate Ashley Hinson should pray that Allah moves the Iranians to a charitable end to a war with the United States and Israel if it isn’t already too late for the November …

Calls from left and right are building to break up Big Ag as beef prices rise, food plants close and workers are locked out from the slaughterhouse. Republican Zach Lahn separated himself in the …

Too bad that Republican Zach Lahn dodged a forum last Thursday with Iowa City-Cedar Rapids business leaders to talk mundane things like budgets and taxes with his Democratic opponent for governor, …

Chris Jones fancied himself trolling for walleyes in the backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River near Lansing in his retirement. Instead, the 65-year-old found himself disembarking at …

You might have attracted as many people to a Unitarian Universalist fellowship hour in Sioux Center as to a Randy Feenstra rally in Sioux Rapids. Just about 40 people showed up for his gubernatorial …

Rob Sand called on Memorial Day as he drove home from a family weekend at Okoboji to catch up, he said, after having read my column about politicians swimming in money. Halfway through, he says …

Storm Lake and Buena Vista County have racked up over $800,000 in legal bills over a lawsuit involving misplaced tax revenues. They could incur another cool million in expenses by the time trial …

Rob Sand has $18 million cash on hand in his run for Iowa governor, but here is the crazy part: He’s a Democrat, and it is only May. Think what the Republicans can do with real money by …

April showers bring May flowers, but not enough to fill Storm Lake’s cup. Already the city is asking residents to conserve water with a dry spring, high demand and a system that has not kept pace. …

Republicans yammer on the TV that you wouldn’t want to see Iowa become Minnesota, Illinois or California. You wouldn’t want 10,000 lakes getting in the way of corn or tech bros buying up all …

Retired Sen. Tom Harkin endorsed Josh Turek of Council Bluffs for the Democratic nomination for the US Senate seat that Harkin once held. As such, Turek could benefit from Harkin’s tutelage on how …