The word “peace,” like many words, carries a number of meanings. Sometimes it’s convenient to choose one of them. U.S. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy use …

This past week, Iowa’s legislature rolled back human rights for transgender people. Senate File 418 was rushed from draft bill to passage within a week and sent to Gov. Kim Reynolds, who signed …

By now, you have probably heard a lot about HF 583. This is a bill for an act relating to sex and gender, including those and related terms for purposes of statutory construction, indications of …

Sure is quiet in The City Beautiful. Nearly 50 degrees and all sunshiney, and barely a peep downtown that Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. The notice had just gone out from Trump: All …

The Trump Administration’s budget framework passed this week by the US House would have deep implications for Iowa in its bid to slash spending by $2 trillion while extending and enhancing tax …

When The Storm Lake Pilot began publishing in October 1870, it was a weekly newspaper. When The Storm Lake Times began publishing in June 1990, it was a weekly newspaper. Over the years, as …

Iowa taxpayers provided about $104 million last school year directly to parents choosing to send their K-12 children to private schools.  The price tag for these education savings accounts, …

That Ann Coulter, what a visionary. As far back as 2007, she said that “women should not have the right to vote” and now Congress is finally catching up to her.  Heck, yeah, I …

The seventh Annual S.L. Stars Mentoring Bingo Night had a successful evening on Feb. 22, held at BVU. A huge thank you to the following prize contributors: Villager; Pampered Chef/Alicia Gatzemeyer; …

Last week was the sixth week of the legislative session, and we remain focused on our work as we are only a couple weeks out from our first legislative deadline of the year. On Tuesday, the Iowa …

A combination of factors is driving property tax increases in Storm Lake. The state has been shifting the tax burden from income to property for years. We are paying off construction bonds for a …

President Donald Trump and DOGE top gun Elon Musk have been in power for a month. How have they changed life in Greene County? Probably not much — yet. Musk has ordered the firing of …

A year ago, I didn't think that I would see this. The President of the U.S. has thrown Ukraine under the bus. Do you understand (perhaps you don’t get it) that Putin’s goal is …

On Tuesday, Feb. 18, the Iowa House Agriculture Committee passed House Study Bill 131 by a bipartisan vote of 21-1. HSB 131 makes a number of modernizing changes to the state grain indemnity …

They put the oxygen mask over my face whereupon I reeled into my Hail Marys and probably an imperfect Act of Contrition. I went dark. I woke up in the University of Iowa Hospital with a …

Iowa’s private colleges have enough troubles without the state legislature piling on. They are major components of our economy, and the death of Iowa Wesleyan in Mount Pleasant is a grim …

Over the past few years there has been a huge increase of attention to math and science in our schools. That’s all well and good, but it seems like it’s been to the detriment of the …

When Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and their pals set their quill pens to parchment to write the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Decatur County, Iowa, was still a half century off in the …

How to resist, Part 2 Iowans have been flooding the phone lines of our congressional representatives and reporting on a Facebook group that the staffers have been testy, if not downright rude. …

With the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, and the unprecedentedly disruptive actions taken by DOGE and President Trump in the name of government efficiency, one agency in …