We’ve been doing a fair amount of driving this year, from coast to coast, and while the country may be divided on a lot of political issues, one thing everyone seems to agree on is that speed …

I never went to business school. I was a glorified English major in college. But I feel I’ve earned a PhD in economics running this small business for the past 35 years. My business …

Last week we celebrated not only the Fourth of July but also the 35th anniversary of The Storm Lake Times. Our first edition came out just before the Fourth in 1990, and featured the upcoming …

Art and I were in Los Angeles for a few days last week. No, we weren’t auditioning for roles in a new “Dumb and Dumber” movie. We were there to see what’s happening in the …

If you watched CBS Sunday Morning last weekend, you may have noticed that former Storm Laker Dave Diamond was mentioned prominently in one of the features. CBS correspondent Anthony Mason was …

I hope all fathers out there had a good Father’s Day last Sunday. I did. We headed out to northwest Indiana at the invitation of our daughter Bridget and her husband Branden. As we sat …

We celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday. It’s a good day to also celebrate George Washington, who was the “Father of Our Country.” George did not have any children of his …

I had only been to Decorah once, nearly 50 years ago, and Mary had never been there, so on our way back from Out East a couple of weeks ago we passed through the northeast Iowa community. It was a …

Iowa should strike its own trade deal with China instead of standing by while the federal government destroys our farm economy. As it is now, Iowa farmers stand to lose bigly in sales of ag …

After touring the new residence hall at Buena Vista University last Friday afternoon, the consensus among us Baby Boomers was we’d all like to go back to college. The new building, as yet …

Our representatives in Congress and Statehouse don’t really represent all of their constituents. They only represent the constituents of their own party. And that is way less than half of all …

Mary and I missed last Friday’s straight-line wind storm that caused considerable damage in Storm Lake. We were on our way to our daughter and son-in-law’s home in northwest Indiana for …

With the bankruptcy of Holzhauer auto dealerships in Storm Lake and Cherokee, it seems unlikely that the Ford brand will reappear in The City Beautiful, ending more than a century of Blue Oval sales …

Big corporations like Apple and General Motors weren’t the only victims of last week’s stock market crash ignited by President Trump’s reckless tariffs which upended the …

If you want to know something about Storm Lake history, ask a Times Pilot reader. They have the answers! We’ve been reminiscing in the last couple columns about the Storm Lake rock and …

Last week reader Rick Davis, Laurens native now living in San Antonio, Texas, asked if anyone remembers the Jags, a rock band from Storm Lake in the 1960s. Our friend Bill Turner came to the …

After my recent column that mentioned I played in a rock band in high school, I received this from a Times Pilot reader. MY NAME is Rick Davis, age 80, a native of Laurens, now living in San …

Watching Drake play in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament last weekend reminded me of my freshman college days in Indiana, when this Iowa boy followed Drake in the NCAA tournament. It was …

Storm Lake lost some good people over the past couple of weeks. My old friend Bill Hott, age 74, passed away unexpectedly Feb. 11 after a long and impressive career in music. Bill and I …

When The Storm Lake Pilot began publishing in October 1870, it was a weekly newspaper. When The Storm Lake Times began publishing in June 1990, it was a weekly newspaper. Over the years, as …