Get our your tennis shoes and knee braces and block off some time. We are in a health care crisis and the best advice may be to take the bull by the horns. In the last month, Blessing Health …

Dear Editor Remember this name in November…. Rebecca Bowker for Iowa House 100. I have had the honor of knowing Rebecca since she moved to Fort Madison many years ago. I have had the honor …

Dear Editor: My name is James Creen, and I am the Chairman of the Lee County Republican Party of Iowa. I am writing a letter to the editor to explain my decision to allow the candidacy of Becky …

We put Buddy, our dog, on The Green Bean Diet.  He was getting quite obese and we had to do something about it for his health.  I don't allow obesity in myself, I don't allow it in our …

Lee Rood is an investigative reporter for the Des Moines Register and did a piece this week on expected increases in property assessments coming next year. The piece indicated that Polk County …

“Reasonable” is a word that is used often in Iowa’s laws. Reasonable fees. Reasonable rules. Reasonable efforts. Reasonable force.But events in recent weeks show government …

I'm humbled as well as flattered to be invited to my hometown of Monroe for a “Meet the Author and Book Signing.”  It will be at the Monroe Public Library, 416 Buchanan St, on …

Blessing's closure of the hospital in Keokuk is really a matter of life and death. We can see the dramatics on full display as Lee County grapples with funding an additional full-time ambulance …

Dear Editor; An article in the Burlington Hawkeye on September 11 gave an overview of the difficulties facing Keokuk due to the pending closure of our hospital on October 1. The closure will …

There was a news update over the weekend about two elderly Iowans who wandered away from different care centers last winter and froze to death. There is no question the deaths were horrible …

They pray every morning to bring them God encounters.  Thomas and Carole-Anne Elliott are Canadians.  In their fifties, they are floating down the Mississippi River on a sailboat.  …

My daughter is a very worldly person. This past week she got on a train and headed to New London, Connecticut to watch "I know This Much is True," a live production with Mark Ruffalo. Mark is the …