Opinion
A mobster, or a teenager? How to tell the difference
National Public Radio was rebuked by at least one listener a while ago because they aired a story in which a college student referred to a Florida town as “gay,” with “gay”...
A Mr. (try to) Fix It\'s Father\'s Day to remember
Ah, Father’s Day.
The day for dads from all over to do special things, go to nice restaurants, and receive phone calls and other messages of appreciation while they celebrate the importan...
Father\'s Day: Thanks is never enough
Today as we celebrate dad's day, I think about my dad, his dad, my other granddad, my husband, my son in law and my son, who is soon to be a dad, my father in law and his dad, both whom have pa... Upstream or down, we are all in floods together
Ann and Jim Kuhlman’s lives changed forever when the Winnebago River flooded their Mason City home in 2008.
Ann, a lay pastor, received a sur...
To the Editor: Benghazi – Cross Border Authority?
There has been no satisfactory explanation of why Leadership was unwilling or unable to launch a rescue mission to save Americans at the Benghazi sub conciliate, and likely we the people will neve...
Opinion: Congratulations on 5th Anniversary
On the occasion of the Van Steenhuyse-Russell Funeral Home's fifth anniversary of being in business, my brothers and I wanted to honor the milestone by saying than... 'WILD” LANDS CAN BE RURAL OR URBAN
Centuries ago, “wild” prairies, wetlands, forests, and savannas soaked up water, holding it on and in the land like a sponge. Floods were rare.
Now...
Heroes among us: Still leading us in times of peace and war
While most of the crowd was facing south or east during the end of the 2013 Memorial Day ceremony at Veterans Park, I looked west and south for a moment.
In doing so, I saw on Monday two heroes... With a cluck, cluck here, and cluck, cluck there
One of our favorite shows is America's got talent. Usually it's not for the talent in the beginning of course, but because of the lack of it.
However, a few years ago we found our...
Tribute to heroes: A serious lesson from a toy helicopter
I will try to describe with words, the post-holiday sounds in the Close house since I opened my most unusual Christmas gift as an adult: Whine. Thump. Whine, Rattle. Whine. Whine, whine rattle. Whi...