So, the absolute worst-kept secret in Lee County, is that a foreign metals company is looking at putting a very large steel production facility in Green Bay Bottoms south of Koch’s Iowa Fertilizer …
Ok, so I’m writing today back on my AI soap box, and apparently to plan for the next three years. This week, a former Anthropic employee was everywhere he could find a damned camera, telling the …
I’m not sure I’ve ever written about this. I had to go back into the PCC search engine to see if I had. I couldn’t find anything. With all the 9-11 shows and reels and tributes this past week, …
I’ve been having trouble finding the funny in the world lately. We’re still paying $4 a gallon for gas, my utility bills keep going up, my assessed valuations keep going up despite not doing …
We’re about eight weeks from mid-term elections and I’m absolutely through with all the political ads tossed in front of me on the multitude of streaming that’s in my face. You can literally …
I’ve been finding myself in a lot of conversations lately about intercommunity commerce. I don’t even know if that’s a real thing, but you can certainly allow the conjunction of intercommunity …
It’s the story that won’t stop – and shouldn’t stop. As earth movers continue scraping and shaping the hillside of the property Jon Heyland used to own on the city’s east side, commonly …
We have a new reporter in the area. I watched some social media posts this week from a local woman named Hannah Baker, who did her own interview with a Lee County Supervisor regarding the “data …
Man it’s hot. We’re in a heat dome or some other sort of weather phenomena that’s making me tired and not want to go outside. I drove by the West Burlington pool Saturday afternoon and it took …
My brothers and I and a couple nephews scheduled a four-day weekend at Innsbrook Resort just south of Wright City in Missouri. I didn’t know the place existed. It’s very peaceful and a “dark …
Julie Humes is a hero in her own right, and would probably be a little blushed at me writing about her in such a way. For those of you who don’t know Julie, she’s the organizer of the Tunnel to …
Ok, there’s been another watershed moment in my chronology of sports fandom. It used to be wrestling. When I first started covering the sport, I didn’t know a cradle from a cross-face. But Ryan …
