Deanna Mahoney was like countless Iowa women through the years. She nurtured three children. She worked outside the home to supplement the family income. She loved bowling and mushroom hunting. That …

This week I want to talk about something a bit more important than my subconscious, or sleep patterns, or why the Reds blow since the All-Star break. I think we need to talk a bit more about the …

IOWA CITY — Kirk Ferentz has never been one to embrace change, but he’s willing to accept it. The Big Ten doesn’t look anything like it did when Ferentz became Iowa’s …

It did sound good, anyway. It was a little more than a week ago when we were sitting on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, listening to new Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti speak …

Jim Dougherty, known as Libertyville's Greatest Barber, retired after 62 years cutting hair in the same town in the same location.  On Sunday, July 30, Libertyville threw a barber-pole …

Is it something with aging that makes your eyes feel like an evil mini Bob Villa snuck in and scoured your eyes with 20-grade sandpaper while you were in REM mode? I’ve always just thought …

Silly me. I thought I had been paying attention to the issues about which Iowans feel strongly. You know, things like inflation, taxes, government spending, the war in Ukraine, a new farm bill, water …

No one told me it would be like this.  I thought growing old was supposed to be the “Golden Years” where you sort of enjoyed life with your spouse, traveled, spent leisure time with …

I have a Charlie Brown complex. Actually, all the girls in my family would say I have a Lucy complex, but let’s not open that can of worms on a Sunday morning. I get in these moods. I suppose …

Dear Editor; On behalf of the Ft Madison Food Pantry I would  like to encourage area gardeners with excess garden produce to consider donating it to our pantry shelves for the food insecure of our community. Nothing

I found my milk. I just want to put this to bed. Apparently, some jackwad thought it would be funny to go to Fareway and stick it in the dairy counter right next to a bunch of other …

One of the photographs of my father that I clearly remember appeared on the pages of the Bloomfield Democrat about 60 years ago. Pop was standing chest-deep in a hole that had been hastily dug in the …