Republicans controlling state government would do well to concentrate on matters that most Iowans care about deeply: great schools, good roads, clean air and water with healthy soil and prosperous …
Public dollars belong in public schools When the early settlers came to our state, often schools were built before churches. As the state became more populated, country schools were …
The Legislature wrote Iowa’s public records law 55 years ago, and one of the tenets of the statute was the belief people deserve to know how state and local governments spend their tax money. …
Best wishes Thank you for including Francis Church's “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” in your Dec. 23 edition. While “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed …
What a weird run we’ve been on the past few years with the double-whammy of Covid and Donald Trump. The aftershocks of deep changes to our lives reverberate still. The House finally elected …
“Heroes and Villains,” a class taught by Keri Shadlow at Storm Lake High School last semester, yielded essays by the students in which they describe their personal heroes. Each young writer …
RE: Water CC: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Drought, increasing consumption and old pipes demand that the City of Storm Lake spend some $90 million on water and sewer upgrades over the next …
Today’s football players are terrific athletes, but one thing they lack are the names that befit the sport. Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes and Dak Prescott are all great quarterbacks in today’s …
On the national stage, the GOP has not been so successful at consolidating its position as it has in Iowa. That was evident this week in the House Republican caucus fight over the speakership, which …
In politics, having a “trifecta” in government is a good thing for a political party — until the trifecta’s inaction on some popular issue starts to haunt the party. Iowa Republicans served …
Too bad that the Republican governor and legislative leaders declined to participate in the traditional legislative preview forum with the Iowa Capitol Press Association. They must have nothing to …
Seeing all those bags and hapless holiday travelers stacked up in Chicago and Denver made me think that a little bit of regulation and socialism won’t turn us into Cuba. Flying was more expensive …
Witter Art Gallery agreement The relations among the City of Storm Lake, the library board (of which I’m vice president) and Witter Gallery have generated a lot of heat lately . …
The George Santos story would be comical were it not for the sad fact that the inveterate liar will be seated as the Republican representative of Long Island when Congress gavels in its new session …
To hear some tell it, our border with Mexico is a porous free-for-all. Here are the facts, according to the annual report of the Department of Homeland Security: More than a million people …
Our apologies to readers who didn’t receive their Times Pilot Friday. Mother Nature’s gut punch Christmas Eve blizzard knocked us for a loop along with the rest of the Midwest. The papers were …
Be careful out there In a recent Storm Lake Times Pilot edition, a 14-year-old driver was cited for failure to maintain control of a GMC Yukon. The Yukon was in the ditch on its …
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch pointed out the obvious in a dissent this week on a 5-4 ruling over whether emergency waiver of the asylum process can continue. The conservative justice …
The burning question in Alta is who lit the fire under the heap of dead ash tree s at the golf course Dec. 10, in violation of a burn ban imposed by the city council. The Buena Vista County …
Few among us are convinced that Donald Trump will ever get booked, much less jailed for his crime of insurrection against democracy. A couple of constitutional law professors floated an interesting …