Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Courthouse Bell
Dear Editor, My spouse tells me that I have a pretty good memory but that I sometimesget the facts confused, but I thought I would give this a shot anyway. It seems like a few years a...
Fossil Fuels, Wind, Water, Solar
In between fighting with my computer, thanks to some sort of virus or malware that I picked up, I try to write stories. This requires pictures. Because of the aforementioned computer issues, I can't ...
Letter to the Editor: Rebuttal
Editor:A rebuttal to a comment by Darrin Linsey.Spin – A+ Narrative A+ - substance F-How can you call Paul Manafort incarceration in Solitary Confinement a “fairy tale”? You make it seem like it is ...
Letter to the Editor: Question concerning flashing lights on vehicles
Dear Editor,As I was driving home in the evening this past weekend, I noticed a Benton County Conservation pickup coming into town near the fire station, with it's red and blue lights flashing. Peopl...
Letter to the Editor...and the Iowa Delegaion of the House of Representatives
Dear Editor, and the Iowa Delegation of the House of Reps.
Something strange is happening in the DOJ the FBI and CIA; Paul Manafort
being moved to Rikers Island and placed in solitar...
Another day older, fortunately not deeper in debt
The only constant in life is change. I don't like change. I like things steady and sure, a bit mundane. A bit boring. I'm not so sure that I can say it's been that this year. Pondering...
Letter to the Editor: June 6, 1944
Dear Editor,Franklin Roosevelt prayer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj2pXLZd2UI The words of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckH4ZwkuccA&...
Letter to the Editor: Inoperable Vehicle
Dear Editor,I had another letter ready to send, another part of our experience with the City of Vinton, when we FINALLY found the definition of an "inoperable vehicle" in Vinton's Ordinances. I knew ...
Best wishes Class of 2019
Dear 2019 graduates,I’m not sure if there’s anything that could be said that hasn’t already been said to graduating classes across the country as they prepare to leave the doors of their high school ...
Letter to the Editor: A Veteran's Memory of a tour in Thailand
One of our last missions in the country of Thailand:We were to refuel a flight of four F-105s. All we knew was a cell of two KC-135 Tankers and four F-105 crossed the hostile fire line heading ...