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 …
So it was decided: Chicago had won the bid for the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Better known as the World’s Fair, Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root were named as chief architects to great …
Buried words, like buried treasures, sometimes surprise and enrich. But buried landmines only create problems now, and later. Such is the case with a passage buried in a 71-page Iowa Supreme …
If the Confederate States of America (CSA) had succeeded in winning, or negotiating, its independence from the United States of America in the Civil War, this year it would be celebrating its 165th …
Imagine punishing your kid for telling the truth by taking away their allowance years later. It makes no sense, but that’s the logic behind an assertion by Kraig Paulsen, the Director of the Iowa …
In the ongoing, years-long group text between my four brothers and sister, there was a brief exchange the Saturday before Memorial Day between me, son Paul, and my next younger brother Perry. I …
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 …
In 2023, I left a long-term marriage and long-term home ownership and became a renter. I’m lucky that my rent doesn’t consume more than 30% of my salary. Even though I have money set aside for …
Donald Trump is the most consequential President of the United States in more than 75 years. He now controls, partially controls, or heavily influences most of the major sectors of American life. He …
In yet another effort to explain the 2025 changes to the Federal Milk Marketing Orders, a mid-June headline in a widely respected farm newspaper carried this news: “Milk pricing explained: ‘New …
I would like to thank the Cherokee Chronicle Times for reporting on Iowa Code 812.6 illegal detainments past 30 days at Cherokee MHI by HHS Director Kelly Garcia. I've fully briefed the Iowa Supreme …
A letter written 250 years ago by John Adams to his wife Abigail reminds 21st century Americans about the bold sacrifice and binding covenant our nation's founders made on behalf of generations to …
“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 …
When my parents built a new home in the post-WWII housing heyday, they planted two apple trees and tilled a garden in the backyard. They dug an additional plot at the back of a second adjoining lot. …
As Americans celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday with parades, speeches, fireworks and other patriotic traditions, much attention will focus on familiar symbols of our history — monuments, …
In 17 months of President Trump’s second term of office, he is responsible for the U.S. government taking taxpayer money to purchase equity stakes in 14 private and 14 publicly held companies. …
As a fifth-generation Iowa farmer, I understand the importance of making decisions that sustain a farm for future generations. My family has been farming and raising pigs in central Iowa for more …
The June World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates from USDA contains a paradox policymakers might want to note: domestic stocks of unsold cotton continue to sit on the sluggish market while …
Back in January 2017, as Barack Obama was wrapping up his second term as President and preparing to hand the office over to Donald Trump, I wrote a column about why I was going to miss him. Last …