Efforts to reduce the number of cats on the streets in Storm Lake may be well-intentioned, but putting cats back outdoors spells suffering and death for felines and wildlife and creates problems for …

A wave of layoffs is cresting over Iowa this summer as sharply lower commodity prices damp machinery sales. Most prominent has been John Deere, which has laid off more than 2,000 workers at multiple …

Donald Trump last week declared that millions and millions of immigrants “happen to be taking Black jobs.” He said this on stage at the convention of the National Association of Black …

Question: When is a bribe not a bribe, but a thank-you gift? Answer: When it’s paid after the fact, not before. So says the U.S. Supreme Court. Here’s the setup: In 2012 …

Nearly 45% of all agricultural workers in the U.S. today — 950,000 of an estimated 2.2 million farmworkers — are “unauthorized” migrants working illegally on American farms …

I'm not a political person and frankly I don't know the difference between the Democratic and Republican Party. And I'll bet most of Gen X and Gen Z don't either without looking it up on their …

Donald Trump is trying to run away from Project 2025, a legislative blueprint for the next administration drafted by the Heritage Foundation that collects in one place conservative thinking since the …

I’m not a big Olympics fan, but I find myself watching bits and pieces of the games because I guess I feel obligated. I’m a traditionalist when it comes to Olympic sports. I have …

Some memories stick with you — like that August day around 1960 when my parents loaded my two brothers and me into our Dodge Coronet and headed to the Iowa State Fair for the first time. Our …

I had an abortion 28 years ago. If that surgical intervention was needed by me on Monday, July 29, beginning at 8 a.m. it would not have occurred, or if it did occur it might result in the …

Trying to stem the flow of money in American politics is like trying to hold back the Mississippi River. It’s dirty, dangerous work that, in the end, is almost always washed away by a flood of …

Prohibiting cellphones from Storm Lake classrooms is an idea whose time has come and deserves support. The school board has approved a policy put forward by principals that allows staff to confiscate …

This is why we live in Iowa despite winters and the legislature: When Byron’s Bar in Pomeroy was put in the wrecking ball bullseye, patriots from across the state rose up and made sure the …

On June 22, our lives changed. I’ve shared this story with many of you, but I haven’t been able to process or piece it together in writing. I gave myself a goal of the one-month marker, …

A judge gives us pause to ask again why the City of Storm Lake is suing Buena Vista County for misplacing $5 million or more in tax increment financing revenue, and why the county is being so …

This week’s nomination of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States brings to mind her visit to Storm Lake and the Times Pilot office almost exactly five years …

For the past couple of years, Republicans often accused Joe Biden of dodging the media — refusing to sit for extended interviews, declining to be questioned in regular White House press …

Like most southern Illinois farms of my youth, my family had a closet filled with guns. It was just inside the living room and it held my father’s 12-gauge Marlin shotgun, his .22 caliber …

For at least several years the Democratic hierarchy has denied there were any problems with the mental acuity of Joe Biden. Their willing accomplices in the media and press echoed the same …

Ed Tibbetts hosts the second episode of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Politics Panel, featuring Rekha Basu , Laura Belin , Douglas Burns , Dave Busiek , Art Cullen , Julie Gammack , …