Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Why replace judges who make own laws on marriage
Memo to R.S.: This is not an ouster, but a retention vote. What happens if they are not retained? --- someone else gets appointed. &nb...
Letter to the Editor: Vote against fear & hate on judicial retention issue
To The Editor,
Have those who are advocating the ouster of three Supreme Court Justices really thought through what happens if they are successful. How does this group plan to make sure ...
Letter to the Editor: Support Zaun for Congress
While Brad Zaun was mayor of Urbandale, the city enjoyed the lowest tax rates in the metro area because of Zaun's leadership.
Zaun cleared the way for businesses to grow and expand, growin...
New junk mail
Whatever the technology, people will try to find a way to use it to promote their products or business at as little cost to them as possible. Especially if it's possible to do so for free.
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The joys of junior journalism for the not-so junior journalist
Everyone once in a while, you hear an old song that is new to you, and it brings perspective to your life.
Like "Partners, Brothers and Friends."
The song is from 1985, and ...
Panel discussion demonstrates disappointing limitations of modern media
What I learned on a Press Panel:
I learned that radio guys are in the business for a reason, they love to talk, if you want a guy that loves to talk, look there. I already knew that ...
The Greatest Generation we never knew, at least not well enough
I was standing at the door of St. Elizabeth Church in Hiawatha, taking photos as the Honor Flight staff lined the hallway and applauded the World War II veterans leaving their orientation.
The ...
Finally: Time to put Total Dale Earnhardt policy to work in Iraq
Finally, seven years after George W. Bush told the world that the war in Iraq would start “at the time and the place of our choosing,” America now has the chance to do what I wrote in M...
Dear Editor,
Dear Editor,
We have been hammered by the press and many elected leaders about the consequences of allowing the so called "Bush Tax Cuts" to expire.
This Government in the last 18...
Peeking at the Guest Book: A beginner's guide to grief
“You gave away one of our secrets,” said Frank, the Funeral Home Guy.
We had just buried my mom — and three weeks to the day later, my grandfather — when I wrote the fo...