Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Drug Effectiveness Discussion
Editor:I hope none of you Gould, Linsey, or Schwartz come down with COVID-19. I also hope if you do get it you can recover at home without drug therapy. If you do feel shortness of breath - don't ...
Getting lost in the curls
In all of the COVID-19 concerns, and wondering about the future, and shaking my head at what we are doing to ourselves because of it, sometimes I need some time to step away from it all. It seems like...
Laugh with Kathy: Known Traveler Number
Shortly after we moved to rural Benton County, the local newspaper printed a series of articles about disaster preparedness. The premise of the article was that if there was a disaster in your area an...
Letter to the Editor: Gingrich on Controversial Treatment
Dear Editor:To Norma Gould and others: Did you click on the link to Democrat State Senator Karen Whitsett? The drug therapy you state is unproven, but I don’t think it matters much t...
Laugh with Kathy: You can write
The first time someone told me I could write I was in 8th grade and my English teacher recommended me for Advanced English. She also assigned me to be the sports editor for the school newspaper f...
It's Political Season time for Spring Training
The other day I made a rare trip to the grocery store. Hey, I ran out of milk and while the place used to be packed to the gills, I opted to spend a little more at the gas stations rather than wade in... Laugh with Kathy: Country Roads of Scotland
Gene has always dreamed of traveling to Scotland and seeing the countryside. So when he retired a year ago, I surprised him with a trip to Scotland. We would spend ten days traveling the country roads...
Laugh with Kathy: The Road to Hana
I think I will stick with my theme of travel stories this week, since we are all sheltering at home and dreaming of our next adventure. Once again, my travel enthusiasm got the better of us.Several ye...
Letter to the Editor: Oops!!
Dear Editor, Oops!!Looks like maybe Trump, Fox News, John, and Dr. Oz may have been wrong. This is what happens when a person actually believes Trump, who is not qualified to make medical pronouncemen...
Don't Spray Lysol on your Food
Dr. Nafissa Cisse Egbounye, the Blackhawk County Public Health Director as part of the news conference on Thursday answered several questions about the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus at Tyson's plant ...