The Trump Administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime but it can't exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of …

It’s never been easy as a Democrat in Northwest Iowa. They are few and far between. Back when Dad ran for legislature from Buena Vista County on the Kennedy ticket in 1960, they burned a cross …

It came too late and is too little but at least we finally have an education funding bill to present for Gov. Kim Reynolds’s signature, allowing 2% growth for local school districts. Sen. Lynn …

Big corporations like Apple and General Motors weren’t the only victims of last week’s stock market crash ignited by President Trump’s reckless tariffs which upended the …

My mom was a terrible cook. Well, maybe not terrible, but she was not well suited for the job. My brother said it was the reason he was so skinny as a kid. He swears we ate pancakes nearly every …

Rarely, if ever, has Iowa’s congressional delegation found itself situated to alter the course of America’s economy. But right now it can, and one of the six in the delegation has already …

From 1955 to 1961 into my sophomore year at St. Mary’s, I delivered newspapers, initially for the Sioux City Journal and, subsequently, the Des Moines Register. Over time, my routes encompassed …

A small group of Sac City residents recently attended several open forum meetings which hosted two of our Iowa legislators. The topics raised consisted of deportation, DOGE, high cancer rates in …

One of President Trump’s 111 record setting executive actions, 25 proclamations and 27 memoranda called for election security. Such an action should have been initiated by our 535 Congressional …

It's that time of the year, when I get a lot of questions about the Department of Revenue- and every year the are making strides at improving the processes. Just last week the Iowa Department of …

The late newspaper columnist Bill Wundram of the Quad-City Times in Davenport wrote seven days a week for 31 years. Many of his columns, highlighting a wide variety of concerns in his home community, …

Omaha’s humble Eppley Airfield looked bombed-out under construction but beautiful nonetheless Sunday after having breathed in 30Rock’s NBC Studios in the heart of Manhattan. It was …

The news can be daunting. A warming climate is worsening acute droughts in Africa and Central America. Food security is tenuous. It is the source of horrible conflict in places like Sudan. Assistance …

If you want to know something about Storm Lake history, ask a Times Pilot reader. They have the answers! We’ve been reminiscing in the last couple columns about the Storm Lake rock and …

Growing up in the 1950s, Evans family vacations seem typical by rural Midwest standards: car trips to the Ozarks, the Black Hills, Nauvoo and New Salem in Illinois, or St. Louis for a Cardinals …

Any day now, it will be time to unleash The Black Beast. It has been penned up since late November, and now that it’s April, it should be safe to release into the wilds of Storm Lake streets. …

Last week, I took advantage of almost 70-degree temps and somewhat brisk winds to go on a 21-mile circuitous ride on my recumbent trike from my home in West Lake Estates to Harry Schaller's driveway …

The garage sale season concurs with the baseball season. The last hurrah for the baseball season is the World Series. The last hurrah for the garage sale season is the Methodist Manor Guild holding …

Every year, for 71 years, Lucy has pulled Charlie Brown’s football away at the last minute, just as he was about to kick it through the goal post. “Aaugh!” “Wump!” …

The eleventh week of the session was heavy with debate as we prepare to go into our second legislative deadline. One of the bills debated last week, which I had the privilege of floor managing, …