The events and issues of the past couple of weeks have been swirling around in my head like Toto, Dorothy and the debris picked up in that famous Kansas cyclone. Here are some thoughts from that vortex: How Do You Compare? People were buzzing Sunday night over news...
One of my co-workers at the Des Moines Register was Gene Raffensperger, an excellent reporter with a delicious sense of humor. When Raff was working on a dull story, he often would announce to colleagues, “We’re going to need another tanker of Murine. I’ve got an...
There was a milestone of note recently, and it is a shame there was not a big public celebration. Twenty years ago, Gov. Tom Vilsack and the Iowa Legislature had the foresight to create a program that has brought important changes to communities large and small...
There was a milestone of note recently, and it is a shame there was not a big public celebration. Twenty years ago, Gov. Tom Vilsack and the Iowa Legislature had the foresight to create a program that has brought important changes to communities large and small...
The death of Congressman John Lewis last Friday night accomplished what police officers with their billy clubs and white mobs, with their fists and pipes, never were able to achieve: Silencing his voice. For 60 years, Lewis expressed his opinions — on segregation,...
The death of Congressman John Lewis last Friday night accomplished what police officers with their billy clubs and white mobs, with their fists and pipes, never were able to achieve: Silencing his voice. For 60 years, Lewis expressed his opinions — on segregation,...
Give an extra tug on your seatbelt. The next couple of months will be rough ones. The new school year starts in a few weeks. Not surprisingly, with the coronavirus still sickening and killing people in Iowa, what normally is a time of much excitement has become a...
There have not been a lot of bright spots since coronavirus began sickening Iowans. So far, 688 people have died in our state from the virus, and another 26,350 have been infected. Unemployment in Iowa is in the double digits. We have already begun hearing of...
There have not been a lot of bright spots since coronavirus began sickening Iowans. So far, 688 people have died in our state from the virus, and another 26,350 have been infected. Unemployment in Iowa is in the double digits. We have already begun hearing of...
There have not been a lot of bright spots since coronavirus began sickening Iowans. So far, 688 people have died in our state from the virus, and another 26,350 have been infected. Unemployment in Iowa is in the double digits. We have already begun hearing of...
