The simple solution to speeding up last-minute holiday shopping

VINTON TODAY
December 8, 2010 9:02 pm

  Every once in a while, you get a glimpse of society that gives you at least a bit of a clue as to how America deteriorated from the Europe-saving, car-and airplane-inventing military and economic champion of the 20th Century to our current condition as the overweight, under-employed international brother-in-law who won’t get off the couch on Christmas to fill his own plate.

Approaching the 10th anniversary of 9/11 while forgetting all of its lessons

VINTON TODAY
December 6, 2010 1:08 pm

       I have begun making plans for what to write about in 2011. On that list, of course, is the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the event that changed modern American history, and brought us war – and led to another war.

The Shooting Somali Pirates Principle

VINTON TODAY
December 3, 2010 11:10 am

     If Barbara Walters were a serious journalist – and to anyone who takes issue with my assertion that she is not, I have two words for you: Jersey Shore – she would have named as the most fascinating person of 2009: The Navy SEALS who shot the Somali pirates.

142, 2122, 50, 2, 1 all important numbers

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
December 2, 2010 10:52 pm

I love figuring out how something works.  Today I was pleasantly surprised to see our inbox brimming over with news tidbits, and thought, "I wonder how many contributors we've had over the last almost 9 months.

City Dog, Country Dog

BUDDY
December 2, 2010 10:15 pm

I've heard it said, "It's a dog's life"  A few months ago, I showed up at the door of a family with kids at home, another dog in the yard and about 5 cats.

Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony: Be there

VINTON TODAY
December 2, 2010 12:09 pm

       I have to admit, that at the end of the very first Vinton-Shellsburg Middle School, I was disappointed.      Not in the event – it’s great.

A column a day...

VINTON TODAY
November 30, 2010 1:14 pm

       From March of 2003, until November of 2008, I wrote a newspaper column almost every day.      I do not know this for a fact, but I believe I was the only person in Iowa doing that at the time.

The slip of the tongue that changed modern American politics

VINTON TODAY
November 30, 2010 12:06 pm

       She would have remained anonymous, in Alaska, if it wasn’t for an unbelievably bizarre combination of a slip of the tongue and a technological error in the summer of 2008.

Eastern Iowa Honor Flights thanks Lions Club

ROGER UTHOFF, HONOR FLWWIGHTS
November 23, 2010 9:30 am

  Eastern Iowa Honor Flight would like to thank the Vinton Lions Club and all the supporters who made the recent chili feed a great success.

Letter to the Editor: Thankful to be American

JOHN STIEGELMEYER
November 22, 2010 12:56 pm

       As Thanksgiving day approaches I feel certain blessings. One and the most important - I have been born an American.