At the height of the Christmas giving season, the governors of Iowa and Nebraska, two largely rural, heavily agricultural states, chose to play Grinch by turning down tens of millions of federal food …

The Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division released its annual report for the 2023 fiscal year. It reported total revenue of $478,259,852, which is a 3.34% increase from 2022. Unsurprisingly, $445,830,313 …

Every day, we come across Iowa stories depicting instances of elder neglect or abuse: cases where gangrene leads to amputations, narratives of individuals choking on their saliva, and accounts of …

Some Iowa Republicans are calling for a primary opponent to State Rep. Megan Jones, R-Sioux Rapids, for her vote against Iowa’s “don’t say gay” law. She was among four House Republicans who …

I’ve officially hopped on the University of Washington bandwagon to win the college football championship Monday night. I was already a U-Dub fan before I learned Tuesday that Washington’s …

At this writing, 19 community school districts in Iowa have removed from their shelves Margaret Atwood’s award-winning dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale.   That number is likely to go up …

The year 2023 is over, and millions of people around the world are glad of that. Life today is challenging in the extreme for the population of Gaza, and millions of residents of Sudan and South …

Founding father Benjamin Franklin was spot-on almost three centuries ago when he noted–in print, no less–that two unavoidable facts of life were death and taxes. Had Ben been in the …

Our thanks to Bill Miller, attorney for the City of Storm Lake, for finally attempting to put the discussion of lost tax collections where it belongs — squarely in the public realm since this is …

We had been Novids, Dolores and I, all this time or so we thought. Until Christmas Eve. Doing a single load of dishes can knock me out such that I must retire to watch at least one half of a Big …

Editor's note: The following letter was written by the City of Storm Lake’s attorney to lawyers for Buena Vista County regarding a dispute over missing tax increment financing revenue. The attorney …

We Iowans apparently have been kidding ourselves. Somehow, as we focus on taxes, water quality and allegations of big-government overreach, as we wrestle with immigration, inflation, drug abuse, …

Dear Toribio Romo, We think you’re out there somewhere, in a red pickup where water pours from an apparent mirage in the Sonoran desert. People have told us you directed them here. They wear …

It’s the time of giving, and the Times Pilot received something we didn’t want — Covid. Seven out of our staff of 12 were out with the bug on Tuesday, the day after Christmas, but we got …

Art, John and staff: Just wanted to thank you very much for printing the press release from ICO concerning the renaming of the  Crouch Family Alumni Hall. Storm Lake has been a great community …

If you are a Palestinian in Gaza, what are your options? If you lived in north Gaza, you no longer do. You had to leave your home and most of your belongings, take your family and whatever you could …

If we were asked the most important local news development of 2023, we might answer that it happened just Monday. The Storm Lake City Council voted to sue Buena Vista County over the misplacement of …

Donald Trump has recently been crying wolf by declaring America’s legal system is a “witch-hunt” against him. Trump claims the New York, Georgia, Florida and District of Columbia court cases …

What I hear from the Progressives and the left these days is, “We have to defend democracy,” and “What is it that motivates some people to vote against their best interests, or not vote at …

With Donald Trump bellering about immigrants poisoning our blood, it is hard not to approach 2024 with a measure of fear and a dash of loathing. The New Year rings in with the Iowa Caucuses just …