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 …
Our community has grown substantially in the last several years because of the vision and commitment of Matt Mohrfeld. Matt recognized early in his Mayoral leadership that Fort Madison …
Natalie Johnson knew the magnitude of the moment needed some promotion. When Johnson saw the news about the Battle at Bracewell outdoor high school volleyball event, her first thought was how to draw …
To the Editor: WHAT HAPPENED LAST TUESDAY NIGHT? Last Tuesday night, July 28, 2026, over 200 concerned citizens of Fort Madison and the surrounding areas showed up at a Planning & …
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 hard to describe the smell — think of 5,000 sweaty socks piled in the corner of a room, and you get the idea. It was in the room in Carver-Hawkeye Arena set up for the press conferences at …
An orange sunrise, to rival the Buck Full Moon, greeted me on Tuesday, July 28, like the Signal Corps sending a message, “It's Curt's birthday, he's 78 and feels great, dang straight!” I …
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 …
To Mr. Wolgemuth, City Manager Laura Liegois, and whomever else it may concern: My name is Taylor Vandenberg. I grew up in Fort Madison, and it is and forever shall be the home of my family and …
Novelist Charles Dickens poked his quill pen at government bureaucracy 175 years ago with his accounts about a fictionalized department he called the "Circumlocution Office.” …
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 …
When District Judge Adria Kester studied at the Drake University Law School, she must have opted out of the “Law of Holes” coursework. I have written before about the first Law of Holes, in …
