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 …
I saw the advertisement for the fox call in an old Outdoor Life magazine. A neighbor gave me all his old Outdoor Life and Field and Stream magazines, and I devoured them like candy. I was …
Life is tough enough. It’s good to have partnerships. In my other life, I write grants for Lee County and we’ve had some success saving taxpayer money on the Lee County Health …
My wife's brother-in-law, Ron, in his mid-seventies, is a good Christian. He and his wife Becky live in Liberty, Missouri, which is a suburb of Kansas City (go Chiefs!). Ron's a friendly …
“Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain”. The Iowa motto is written in white letters on the blue streamers being carried in the beak of an eagle on the Iowa flag. Though …
This world spins me around a lot - not just at the roughly 1,000 mph of physically spinning, although the thought of that gives me vertigo, but at a socially dizzying pace. Journalism in a town of …
There is an interesting study in contrasts playing out right now in Iowa. One example comes from the Davis County School District in Bloomfield. It is the 96th-largest of Iowa’s 328 public …
What's on my mind this week? Kelsey Ray Vandenberg. This Monday, February 20, will be the third year to not have cake, not go to Cheddars or Steak 'N Shake, or eat her undertenderized beef …
Dear Editor What is your life worth? Not long ago I had to call 9-1-1 for myself vbecause of an accident at home. I needed help, not just help, but immediate helf because I was bleeding out. …
Last Monday I would have sworn I was in a black and white live episode of the Twilight Zone watching the Lee County Board of Supervisors. If you haven’t been watching (or reading!) shame on …
Dear Editor I do not get to determine the amount of money the pipeline companies can acquire for their assets or services, so why should...
