Donald Trump’s name was removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on June 13, just one day before his 80th birthday. It was a fitting “tribute” to our nation’s …

A penny doesn’t buy much anymore. We always had to have a few available when the city still had parking meters but that too is history. It costs more than a penny to make a penny. So why do we …

Gov. Kim Reynolds completed the work on the Fiscal Year 2027 state budget by signing the 10 appropriations bills into law, after a few alterations. As she is allowed to do, the Governor struck …

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, …

For the past dozen or so years, at the suggestion of my doctors, I’ve been walking two to three miles per day and feeling quite impressed with myself for my physical fitness. But my pride took …

It was the stuff of movies, the kind of thing that doesn’t happen in real life. Except that it did. The horse who seemed like a dud was running dead last, and then in the final stretch he began to …

Here we go again. If the University of Iowa and Iowa attorney general's office get their way, a legacy gift from a grateful and accomplished graduate will no longer help students like him. …

At least four important public policy questions keep rolling around in my head. Two deal with foreign policy, the other two with federal taxes. I’d like to see them ascend the priority scale of the …

The Fridley-Theatres-owned Vista movie theater in Storm Lake has three screens. In any given week, they usually reserve these screens for the biggest and best blockbuster movies. This week, it’s …

The recent primary elections of Lynn Evans and Zach Lahn should be a wake-up call to politicians in our Republican party. If you run for office, take heed of the eminent domain issue. …

“Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully …

Farm Bills are often loaded with “special interest” lard that favors, say, crop insurance companies, international grain merchandisers, meatpackers and other farm and food players looking for an …

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 …

When Storm Lake citizens proposed the LakeTrail nearly 30 years ago, they envisioned walkers and bikers enjoying safe passage together from Emerald Park on the west shore to Lakeside on the east. …

Just because Montana is big doesn’t mean it merits sole bragging rights to big sky. I’ve been through Montana several times. They’ve got nothing on us; there’s big sky here, too. And that sky can …

Here’s betting District Judge Adria Kester does not read the Aspen Daily News. That Colorado newspaper’s front-page slogan declares, “If you don’t want it printed, don’t let it happen.” …

This is a trivial column. I turned 85 last Monday. Family saluted me with a birthday dinner, thoughtful gifts, and lots of well wishes. Many friends congratulated me as well. It all warmed my …

This session the House Higher Education Committee was proud to champion reforms to our universities’ core curriculum requirements, and Gov. Reynolds has now signed the legislation into law. House …