We’re back! We’re back and facing a 2026 that seems to be full of energy and change. We try to run in big circles as a news organization and touch the lives of as many people as we can, while …
Someone called me “vintage” the other day. I got to my truck with a chuckle after leaving the establishment and said that person is gonna get ‘Beside-the-Pointed’. I was …
The world never ceases to amaze me. And I’m not a big fan of the word ‘amaze’ so you gotta give that phrase some value. I took a post-Thanksgiving tryptophan-shrouded trip to …
So this fall year has rolled out in a funky way. I’ve gone to every single William Penn football game this year except for one. The Statesmen played Grandview in the fifth week of the year and …
Conversations have been heavy this past week with targeted people about the value of community journalism. That spilled over into an innocent debate with my daughter about the ripple effects of …
Good writers take from other writers. Great writers just steal it. That’s a line from one of my favorite writers – Aaron Sorkin. The Sorkin who created West Wing, Sports Night, Newsroom, …
It’s been long enough. Let’s get the government open. It’s not that I mind the intrigue. It’s kinda cool historically, but that’s about the end of things in a shutdown …
Saturday was a different day for me. If you remember the cartoon Peabody and Sherman, it felt like a little whip through the “Way-back machine”. We planned a daytrip to Dubuque to watch …
Fruit is starting to irk me. I’ve been trying to eat healthier and that means peeling more fruit. Well, what the hell is going on with oranges? I want to go back to the old orange. The one …
Spontaneity hasn’t been my strong suit. But with this past week being the fifth week of the month, I decided it would be a good time to head south to visit the wife. I hadn’t been down …
We’re just letting you know that this will be the last Beside the Point. Apparently I’ve won $20 million and a brand new Rolls Royce! I don’t use exclamation points either, so …
The first word in these weekly diatribes shouldn’t be ‘I’ because it seems egocentric. So I put that sentence in there to make sure it didn’t happen because today’s …
