Letter to the Editor: State Funding and Education

VINTON TODAY
March 27, 2015 1:12 pm

By Josie Albrecht Every session the question facing the legislature is how to fit Iowans’ priorities within the constraints of state revenue.

Letter To The Editor: Iran - deal or no deal‏

VINTON TODAY
March 26, 2015 11:47 pm

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 validating treaties entered into by the U.

To the Editor: Voting fraud hysteria in Iowa

ROSEMARY SCHWARTZ
March 22, 2015 6:24 pm

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 predecessor Matt Schultz in an attempt to remove thousands of Iowans from voter rolls to suppress voting in the guise of routing out illegal voting.

Letter to the Editor: HF58

VINTON TODAY
March 11, 2015 11:26 am

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 Doctor to perform an ultrasound and force the woman to view it prior to deciding on having an abortion.

All roads lead to...family

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
March 8, 2015 10:57 pm

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.

The Paper Clip

WENDY GEIGER
March 8, 2015 9:20 pm

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 same time.

Rants from an egg snob

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
March 6, 2015 11:07 am

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.

A Monday and a color to remember forever

VINTON TODAY
March 2, 2015 8:38 am

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.

City boy vs. chickens, part 2

VINTON TODAY
February 20, 2015 11:04 am

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 almost-daily basis.

'Can God Use Me?'

ZACH ZAJICEK
February 20, 2015 10:53 am

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 Israeli judge in the Old Testament who was given mighty strength at various times in his short, troubled life.