The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week restricting the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate surface water will change nothing that’s been happening on the ground in …

Viewed in isolation from lifting the debt ceiling, the deal struck between President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy on limiting federal spending is reasonable enough given a split Congress. …

Over 50% of the food calories eaten daily by the world’s 7.9 billion people come directly from grains. In impoverished nations, that percentage rises to 60% and, in the poorest, it tops 80%. The …

Dear Kieran, Your impending wedding June 10 with Holly precedes Father’s Day by a week, so it seems an apt time to write something about it (having declined an invitation to deliver a weepy …

Former Timesman Tom Lacock, who’s now a cowboy in Wyoming, had a challenge for us after he took our Storm Lake Quiz from last week’s Fillers. He offered us another question for our next quiz: …

Religion, culture and politics are intertwined, as illustrated by a May 23 vote of the Iowa United Methodist Conference under which 83 congregations will separate over gay marriage and gay pastors. …

When FBI agents led a Dixon, Ill., official out of city hall in handcuffs and the charges against her became public, the most often asked question was “How.” How did City Comptroller Rita …

States that depend on the Colorado River to provide water to spawning desert metroplexes and agriculture came to a temporary agreement this week to limit their draws as the flow declines amid a …

Ron DeSantis was railing on about illegal immigration while grilling pork chops at the annual picnic May 13 in deep-red Sioux Center hosted by Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Hull. The crowd cheered him on, …

How humbling and inspirational it was that St. Mary’s Catholic Church was able to receive a tile mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing to the peasant Juan Diego. She is an icon of peace and …

Federal government whistleblowers have a champion in the U.S. Senate: Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa. We can measure a politician’s sincerity about a specific issue or policy by how consistently …

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s most recent World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report confirmed that a freight train of grain is barreling toward 2023-24 markets and …

In Iowa, we respect our police and proudly back the men and women in blue 100%. They put their lives on the line every day to protect our families and communities expecting no recognition in return. …

Iowa’s brain drain is nothing new. Rural areas especially have always shipped off their youth out of state and to the cities where the action is. But it’s getting worse for a number of reasons, …

It was heartbreaking to hear that Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant , so intertwined with our state history, is closing. Just as the graduates were marching off stage, Upper Iowa University …

Last weekend on a tour through southern Iowa we visited was the Welcome Center at the Amish Country Store in Lamoni. We delivered a bunch of newly printed visitor’s guides promoting Storm Lake and …

In 2017, the Iowa Legislature responded to concerns from Gov. Terry Branstad and amended Iowa law to ensure when government employees are forced out of their jobs the reasons must be made public and …

We owe a certain debt of gratitude to the insurance industry for protecting us from ourselves, by keeping the proliferation of guns from spreading into our schools. Driven by gun enthusiasts, the …