If Storm Lake truly intends to develop a recreation area around the dredge spoil site east of the municipal golf course, city officials must approach the Lake Improvement Commission at the earliest …

First impression of Keokuk: beautiful and blighted, drained away with the currents of time at the confluence of the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers on Iowa’s southeastern tip. You could …

We had a little fun making Peach the Newshound look like she was getting a facial, and picturing a Newell-Fonda football player in a huge stadium by using an artificial intelligence program. This is …

It sure smells like Gov. Kim Reynolds is cooking up something behind closed doors that will gut local government to make up for her bad fiscal decisions. The governor reportedly warned local …

Mayor Mike Porsch is wise to remind City Manager Kari Navratil that Storm Lake citizens need a complete understanding of our water demand and capacity as we approach some $100 million in system …

Wisdom from the Stable Genius on Truth Social last week: “I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating …

Back and forth all over Iowa I trundle hawking my book — "Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest." Everywhere I go one message emerges: We want our good old Iowa back. That is moderate, …

A couple weeks ago it looked like nobody wanted to run for mayor of Storm Lake. Mayor Mike Porsch began to think he might have to forgo retirement. He had put the word out a while ago that he did not …

Rob Sand appears to be in tune with a wide swath of Iowans who aren’t happy with the way things are going. Substantial crowds are showing up across the state to hear the state auditor …

We’re grateful that Charles Hernandez stepped forward to run for mayor of Storm Lake in the Nov. 4 election. Mayor Mike Porsch has decided on a well-earned retirement but nobody filed …

When they soak you for the fare, the airline tells you that one bag is allowed on board. False. “We’re checking that bag. The flight is too crowded. You can collect it at …

The City of Storm Lake has formed a water study committee to help determine how to manage increasing water demand with a faltering treatment system. Its most useful work should be to sort out what is …

The assassination of Charlie Kirk set off a national convulsion, as it should. It’s horrible. Frightening. It is not a civil war, which is vital to keep in mind. Kirk’s murder is part of …

Matt Bormann feels used and abused as a model for stewardship by an ag establishment that does not want to invest in comprehensive conservation. The St. Joe farmer, age 46, is a registered …

It should astonish us that the City of Storm Lake and Buena Vista County are deposing each other in an absurd lawsuit where justice will be done only for the Des Moines lawyers. The city is suing the …

The corn looks record-setting, but Iowa State Extension figures it a loser because of falling prices. The heck, you say. We should be kings out here. The black soil, rain at the right time, …

President Trump gave Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., marching orders: Go wild on health. That’s just what RFK2 is doing at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services. His order to cancel …

The earth beneath Iowa politics shifted last week as Democrat Catelin Drey of Sioux City flipped a red Iowa Senate district, and word leaked that Republican US Sen. Joni Ernst of Red Oak would not …

We live in a militarized police state. Los Angeles is occupied by National Guard troops and Marines, against the wishes of local authorities and the duly elected governor of California (whose …

Please excuse my slutty self-promotion, but a book by Art Cullen will be released in late September. Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World is scheduled to be …