Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Theory on Trump
Dear Editor, Today I received this piece online. I grew up in Vinton but no longer live in the area I don’t really want to add more ire, but I read your paper online and the editorial opinion ...
Laugh with Kathy: Hold the Line
While international travel seems like just a vague memory now that we are in our second month of self isolation due to Covid-19, I know that we will be packing our bags and heading out to explore the ...
To the Class of 2020
To the Class of 2020:God, this has to suck; it just has to. I’ll never forget when we studied Roman numerals in elementary school and figured out what our class year was in those (MCMLCXXV…lo...
Laugh with Kathy: Mamma Said
Mamma Said:As a child, my mother told us that we could do anything we wanted to do if we made up our mind and tried hard enough. I have believed that my entire life until recently. It turn...
Letter to the Editor: Wake up
Dear Editor, So, here's the deal. There are 3,155,070 people who live in Iowa. Fifty-three of them have succumbed to the China Virus and that is very unfortunate. My condolences to their families...
Letter to the Editor: What else is there?
To all of you. What if it works on 90% or more on death's door? What will you say? A Michigan State Rep. Karen Whitsett of Detroit with death as the last stop was able to get a ...
Laugh with Kathy: What is your talent?
I remember watching the Miss America Pageant with my father when I was a young girl. It was sometime in the mid 1960s and Miss Kansas won the title. She lived about 30 miles from where we lived ...
Letter to the Editor: Make it stop!
To the Editor,To my chagrin, and I can assure you many others, who opened your website to see another edition of the local amateur’s medical opinion/propaganda. This is what happens when ...
Laugh with Kathy: The Law of Good Intentions
While visiting my family in Texas over Thanksgiving, Gene enjoyed trap shooting one afternoon. He talked about it for days (Like seriously days! It takes twelve hours to drive from Texas to Iowa...
Letter to the Editor: And so it goes
Dear Editor: Democrats and my critics will have a hard time backtracking if this works before other therapies are available. My prayer is that recoveries increase and fatalities ...