Pebbles in our shoes: Addressing the pain of having an accused killer among us

VINTON TODAY
January 27, 2014 2:16 pm

Fortunately for those of us who live in small town America, murder is still a very rare event. Still, in a span of just under five years -- From Nov.

One Iowan global warming skeptic shares his reasons

VINTON TODAY
January 23, 2014 11:06 am

"If you torture numbers, they will tell you anything." I do not know who first said this, but it applies to just about everything, from sports statistics to political polls.

Sportsmanship, not race: What an NFL player's interview does not say about us

VINTON TODAY
January 23, 2014 9:12 am

Did you watch the now-infamous interview with Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman? Did you hear him say "I am the best and if you try to beat me I'm gonna shut your mouth?" And did you respond by saying, "Wow, what a jerk?" If so, you are a" ludicrous" racist who "isn't ready for lower class Americans from neighborhoods like Compton (California) to succeed.

$10k raised! Thanks for making Salvation Army bell-ringing fund-raiser a success

BOB GASTON
January 14, 2014 5:33 pm

CONGRATULATIONS Vinton and Benton County Residents: November and December of 2013, I was privileged to SUCCESSFULLY re-establish the volunteer assistance program of the Salvation Army in Vinton.

Chris Christie's not-so-subtle blunder

VINTON TODAY
January 12, 2014 8:28 pm

Most people who have paid attention to the whole George Washington Bridge-closing scandal believe that it means bad news for the presidential aspirations of New Jersey Governor Chris (The Redundancy) Christie.

2013: Our year of big, good news

VINTON TODAY
January 9, 2014 7:24 pm

Sometime next week, the counter on the front page of the Vinton Today web site (those medium blue numbers at the bottom right corner of the light blue banner behind our name) will turn to: 8,000,000.

The GM-Windows 8 conspiracy

VINTON TODAY
January 6, 2014 10:47 am

We often look at people who believe in "conspiracy theories" as though they are a little -- or more often, a lot -- crazy. People believe that government, society, business, and/or aliens (among other entities) have agreed to work against them to cause harm, loss of property or in some cases, death.

Letter to the Editor: Do Christians Have Civil Rights?

VINTON TODAY
December 19, 2013 5:54 pm

By Peter Shaw Civil rights is a phrase whose origin can be traced back to the early 1700’s. The concept of individual civil rights can be traced back to England’s bill of rights in the 1600’s.

Why, and how, to make reading 'A Christmas Carol' an annual tradition

VINTON TODAY
December 17, 2013 12:12 pm

“Marley was dead: to begin with.” Despite the improper punctuation and the ending of his first sentence with a preposition, Charles Dickens changed the world with his little book about Christmas in 1843.

Dad was THIS ladies' man

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 11, 2013 11:40 am

Driving home from one of those funeral duties, Dean and I talked about our dads, and how neither of them had much, but they were the best dad that a kid could ask for.