Opinion
Cold Cases: How old and unsolved murders can still affect a community today
I had just begun working part-time in the news business, when in May of 1992, I learned some of the most important journalistic lessons from my participation in a story – one I did...
Pastor's Blog - Advent
The Christian season of anticipation and preparation just preceding Christmas is called Advent. If you choose to attend church during Advent, you will probably see candles lit each Sund...
How to survive another winter driving season
I once had the enlightening experience of working with a teenage girl who had already wrecked her car two or three times.
She did not seem to m... Where are all the presidential candidates?
Is it something we said?
Over the six to eight months of the multi-facited battle that has become the race for the 2012 Republican nomination for President of the United States, some...
A lesson in sportsmanship, and life
You don't have to be a Green Bay Packer fan, or even a follower of football, to appreciate what happened on Sunday between Packer Charles Woodson and New York Giant Hakeem Nicks.
... Gentlemen: Never forget your mistakes!
There are important lessons we men learn in life. One of the single most important is that no matter what it is your significant other does, you might need to keep your big, fat mouth sh...
Pastor\'s Blog - Christmas is a Happy Holiday
“Happy Holiday” has become a surprisingly controversial greeting. Use of this greeting is mandatory for some, especially employees of certain large retailers, TV personalitie...
The winner, and loser of the 2012 Iowa Caucus
It's only Dec. 1, but I can already predict the impact of the Iowa GOP caucus on the 2012 presidential race. I can safely predict the biggest winner, and loser....
VT: The one and only
… and then there was one.
When we started Vinton Today, we looked around the state, and the nation, to see if there were other online-only newspapers in Iowa, and the U.S.
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Tim Tebow: An Inconvenient Hero
Back in 1961, the San Francisco 49ers drafted a single-wing halfback from UCLA by the name of Billy Kilmer. He was drafted, primarily, to be a back-up quarterback, but over six ...