Amie here. It’s late summer, but yesterday I walked by my neighbor’s house, which was ALL decked out for fall.

When’s the best time to decorate for fall/Halloween? Reply and tell me.

In this issue: This week’s most talked–about post and reader soundoff.

Four days before a Dubuque County man was sentenced to lifetime sex offender registration for molesting a child, state Rep. Shannon Lundgren wrote the judge a letter on official letterhead vouching for his character.⁣
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