Opinion
Letter to the Editor: State Funding and Education
By Josie Albrecht
Every session the question facing the legislature is how to fit Iowans’ priorities within the constraints of state revenue.
For years, state government in I...
Letter To The Editor: Iran - deal or no deal
By John Stiegelmeyer
Some Opinion Page Writers have accused 47 Republicans who signed a letter addressed to the government of Iran informing said government of our Constitutional procedures va...
To the Editor: Voting fraud hysteria in Iowa
To The Editor:
Something happened recently that received a little media coverage about the current Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate decision not to continue with the court appeal from his pred...
Letter to the Editor: HF58
Representative Pettengill,
It has cone to my attention that you have cosponsored a bill, HF 58, that tries to put government directly between a woman and her Doctor by requiring the Doct...
All roads lead to...family
For a long time, we've joked about our "Holiday Curse." Now for those that don't remember, it seems that in our family if it's a birthday or holiday, something bad happens. &n... The Paper Clip
I was taking a nap today and I had a dream, it was a strange one; the kind where you are totally aware of what’s going on around you and you are also very much asleep and dreaming at the sam...
Rants from an egg snob
It's official.
I have become and egg snob,
I know, I know with all the ribbing from my dear husband about the cost of the eggs our dear hens lay...
As a gal that grew up in town, an...
A Monday and a color to remember forever
For those of you wearing blue to school today, can I make a suggestion?
Whatever you wear today, when it comes out of the laundry tomorrow, put it away. Place it in the box or drawer where you ...
City boy vs. chickens, part 2
Ever since I first set foot on the sandy hill on my grandfather’s farm that became the site of our new home in 2004, there has been a constant battle that plays out in countless ways on an al...
'Can God Use Me?'
Bummed out because you’d like to be greater used of the Lord? Perhaps we can find encouragement in a short promise the LORD gave to the parents of Samson- that crazy, immoral, irresponsible ...