The moment was finally here! I was eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and I was ecstatic. The opportunity to feel some safety against the virus and gain some sort of normalcy was within...
America’s immigration surges are also an Iowa problem, say immigration experts, despite Gov. Kim Reynolds's recent admittal that she declined federal requests to accept migrant children in Iowa,...
This year has been a year of learning, of reflection, of putting things in perspective for many of us. Most of us learned about the importance of slowing down and to be grateful for what we have....
A year ago, as the pandemic started, we all watched how another story began to unfold; the former president kept referring to the coronavirus as the “kung flu” and the “China virus.” Ever since...
The months of February and March this year mark a grim reminder of how the coronavirus pandemic began to change our lives forever one year ago. We are beginning to see the light at the end of the...
It is going to be 25 years since I married my Iowan husband. We had a beautiful ceremony on an island off the coast of Mexico. Unfortunately, my husband’s family was not able to attend our...
“If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” Those were the words of...
Immigration has been at the center of many presidential campaigns, with each cycle bringing about proposals to fix our broken immigration system. President Biden’s pro-immigration agenda has...
Iowa’s governor is relentless in her disregard for science and the lives of Iowans. Once again, she puts profit before the health and life of the very people she is supposed to care for and...
What a year 2020 was for Iowa and the nation. The November elections brought hope, yet certifying the electoral votes would not take place until after a mob of domestic terrorist, incited by...
