As State Auditor, I’ve devoted the last eight years to uncovering waste, fraud and abuse of Iowans’ tax dollars, identifying, on average, more than $4.3 million in misused public funds each year …

The Nov. 3 midterm election is about seven weeks away. According to recent research, 27% of U.S. adults identify as Democrats, 27% as Republicans and 1% belong to a third party. This leaves a massive …

What is going on in college football? When did it become a “minor league” of the NFL? If you’re wondering what I mean, let’s take a quick look at what has happened to college football in past …

Growing up, organized sports consisted of Little League or high school baseball in the spring and summer. Fall and winter meant basketball since our school was too tiny for football.  No adult …

Your mother presses her call button, then again. No one comes. nnShe requires help getting out of bed, toileting, repositioning to address agonizing pressure ulcers, taking life-sustaining …

State revenue remained on the positive side of the ledger through two months of Fiscal Year 2027. According to the Legislative Services Agency, net receipts have increased by $102 million or 7.2% …

If you think that pinko Rob Sand will make a hash of Iowa, rest easy buckaroo. We’re tops in cancer and rooting around the bottom in economic performance. So things are not that great after 10 …

President Trump’s trade wars and shooting wars help provide clarity. Oil is killing us. It keeps us stuck in a permanent war in the Middle East. The trade war with China ruined soy export markets …

Donald Trump and his followers are crying wolf again, trying to scare Americans that Democrats are communists. They’re even trying it out on Rob Sand and Josh Turek, Democrats running for Iowa …

I recently read “Nobody’s Girl” by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. She was one of many young girls who were trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. It’s not a read I would easily …

Succession planning and public celebration typically accompany executive retirements. They provide for an orderly leadership transition and public acknowledgment of a job well done. So, two …

We’re seven weeks from the midterm elections. Mail-in and absentee voting has already begun in some states. Voters are starting to pay more attention to the candidates and to the parties they …

On Memorial Day of 1988, I and three other male employees from Buena Vista University, along with an equal number of friends, embarked on a four-day golfing vacation in Bella Vista, Ark. One of them, …

When I saw Mike Delaney’s apples in Iowa Letter to the Editor it brought back so many memories. I grew up on a small farm near Paton until I was 10 years old. By then I could milk cows, …

There was an interesting news piece by the BBC about our President saying that if the Republicans win both Houses in the mid-term elections, he would give every American $5,000. While it’s not …

Attorney General Brenna Bird recently traveled with the Quad City Back the Blue Flight to Washington, D.C., where participants visited the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Bird rightly …

It’s so noisy out a fella can scarcely hear himself think. You may seek refuge in the back yard listening for the songbird, but the hedge trimmer has a job to do. The dog barks at the hedge …

Last week was tough for Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for governor. The ground trembled a bit when the Iowa Farm Bureau political action committee did not endorse the self-described Belle …

Can you remember what you were doing when something historical happened in your lifetime? For each generation, there seems to be at least one date that, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt said …

Gloria Steinem died recently, and all sorts of writers and journalists memorialized her, which was fitting. One of the first things I thought, when I heard that she died, was to recall her trenchant, …