Every day it seems I haggle with society. I’m extremely frustrated with the lack of accountability in people. I made a couple trips through a big box store in the area several times over …
The Iowa Legislature and Governor Kim Reynolds cannot seem to make up their minds whether they support parental rights or are against Mom and Dad being the decision-makers when it comes to their …
Dear Editor: I'm not a basketball fan or a Hawkeye fan or a sports fan in general. What I am is someone who does not play when it comes to racism and its inherent hypocrisy.
This story could only have been written by God. In 2013 the Christian School in Mt. Pleasant had an opening for a kindergarten through first-grade elementary teacher. The teacher needed …
In November, Fort Madison Community School District officials notified Holy Trinity Catholic’s system that they would be dropping them from the football program. The move is disappointing …
I've been reading about Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie, Calvinist Christians in Holland who believed in giving aid and shelter to the Jews during World War II. For their efforts they …
Instincts. The innate, quick, natural reaction to a stimulus. Training and repetition helps develop those reactions. It’s the repetition that’s beginning to bother me. Every day …
On a late summer afternoon in Bloomfield 40 years ago, the people of Iowa learned about an unofficial government principle we have seen repeated in recent weeks.Although this has played out in …
One of my former Creative Writing students, Aimee Gauley (by golly) from Ft. Madison, told me that I needed to come to Ft. Madison and watch this movie, “Intent Unknown” being filmed. …
There’s something permanent about a sun kissing the Gulf of Mexico on a not-so-warm spring evening. All you can see is surf, and the stretch of the sun’s reflection off the gray water …
I'm a jynx. I overreact. I get mad at simple things. In the middle of Saturday's 87 sporting events I had to cover, the Vikings were playing a rare Saturday regular season affair. I wasn't …
Every few months, someone is killed or injured by police somewhere in the United States under circumstances that lead to inevitable questions about what exactly occurred.Typically, answers come when …
