Opinion
The Million memory March
For many people, there are places, or dates, that they will always remember.
The park where you hit your first home run.
The place you were standing when you heard that JFK had been shot.
The date you met your husband or wife.
Mini Masters for a Mini Mediocre golfer
I was, by chance, one of the first people to complete all the holes of the 2011 Vinton Unlimited Mini-Masters.
Or as golfers as bad as I am should call it, the Mini-Mediocres, at best.
I shot a 90; which is not-so-good on the big golf course. It's basically lousy for miniature golf. To my faceless friend
Just last night my phone rang, and something happened that wouldn't have happened 10 years ago.
My sister called me on her way home from work...
Then we started discussing technology. I explained that yesterday was entertaining. While working on the website, I was helping one of my daughters with their multiplication and division, and texting, e-mailing, popping into facebook as well as creating ads.
For the want of a 21st Century nail
Some of you may have looked at the unusually low numbers of stories on Vinton Today yesterday and asked, "Where is Dean? Has he been spending too much time with the granddaughters or playing on the farm to tell us what happened at the meeting with Rep. Pettengill on Saturday, or the school board on Monday?"
Well, as a matter of fact, that is how I have spent much of my time -- playing with the oldest granddaughter and holding the new one.
Faceless criminals
I'm relatively new to this whole reporting aspect of the "newspapering" world, so was a bit surprised to find that there are just some things you cannot print.
If you commit a crime locally, and get your mugshot taken, we get to show the whole world who you are.
However, if you deal in child porn, which becomes a federal case, they will protect you.
Guys, you just CAN'T win!
Finally, a gentlemen is born.
Well, I know there are real gentlemen out there, but sometimes we take them for granted.
It seems guys just can't win in our society.
If they don't open the door, they get criticized for not being a gentlemen...if they do, women whine that they don't need special treatment just because they're a woman.
The new F-word in collegiate basketball
Iowa State University women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly, according to an article in last week’s ESPN The Magazine, is a homophobe because he used the F-word.
No, Coach Fennelly did not use the three-letter F-word that some people – including many homosexuals – use to describe individuals who prefer others of their own gender.
Free Speech does not mean anonymous speech
"What’s wrong, Mr. Close? Don’t you believe in free speech?"
It took a while for me to understand what the comment sender was saying. Then I remembered: He was complaining because we rejected an anonymous comment. Our stated policy on comments to story is that they must be accompanied by a name.
A closer look at the new Vinton residents who will 'get things done'
Put yourself in the shoes – actually in the black government-issue work boots – of any of the 250 or so people who saw Vinton, Iowa, for the first time yesterday.
You’ve spent most of your life in a city much larger than Vinton (although a few of the AmeriCorps members are from small towns). Get everything you can out of Vinton Today!
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