Two million Knicks fans reveled in lower Manhattan for a ticker-tape parade last Thursday morning as I skedaddled to LaGuardia for country roads to take me home. What an awful place, huh? Worse …

Republican senate candidate Ashley Hinson should pray that Allah moves the Iranians to a charitable end to a war with the United States and Israel if it isn’t already too late for the November …

I just saw a preview of a new movie coming out in mid-August, “The Brink of War.” It tells the story of the 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President …

In the late 1980s, a group of Storm Lakers planned and built a recreational trail to extend  farther around the lake. A committee of over a dozen people worked to make the LakeTrail a reality. …

It has been a while since you heard a United States leader say, “The fault is mine alone.” If you visit Abilene, Kansas, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Museum offers countless …

Poor Joe Biden. Out of office for 17 months and he’s still the reason for every Trump Administration failure, large or small. Take the latest screw-up the U.S. Department of Agriculture now …

Donald Trump’s name was removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on June 13, just one day before his 80th birthday. It was a fitting “tribute” to our nation’s …

A penny doesn’t buy much anymore. We always had to have a few available when the city still had parking meters but that too is history. It costs more than a penny to make a penny. So why do we …

Gov. Kim Reynolds completed the work on the Fiscal Year 2027 state budget by signing the 10 appropriations bills into law, after a few alterations. As she is allowed to do, the Governor struck …

Calls from left and right are building to break up Big Ag as beef prices rise, food plants close and workers are locked out from the slaughterhouse. Republican Zach Lahn separated himself in the …

Too bad that Republican Zach Lahn dodged a forum last Thursday with Iowa City-Cedar Rapids business leaders to talk mundane things like budgets and taxes with his Democratic opponent for governor, …

For the past dozen or so years, at the suggestion of my doctors, I’ve been walking two to three miles per day and feeling quite impressed with myself for my physical fitness. But my pride took …

It was the stuff of movies, the kind of thing that doesn’t happen in real life. Except that it did. The horse who seemed like a dud was running dead last, and then in the final stretch he began to …

Here we go again. If the University of Iowa and Iowa attorney general's office get their way, a legacy gift from a grateful and accomplished graduate will no longer help students like him. …

At least four important public policy questions keep rolling around in my head. Two deal with foreign policy, the other two with federal taxes. I’d like to see them ascend the priority scale of the …

The Fridley-Theatres-owned Vista movie theater in Storm Lake has three screens. In any given week, they usually reserve these screens for the biggest and best blockbuster movies. This week, it’s …

The recent primary elections of Lynn Evans and Zach Lahn should be a wake-up call to politicians in our Republican party. If you run for office, take heed of the eminent domain issue. …

“Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully …

Farm Bills are often loaded with “special interest” lard that favors, say, crop insurance companies, international grain merchandisers, meatpackers and other farm and food players looking for an …

Chris Jones fancied himself trolling for walleyes in the backwaters of the Upper Mississippi River near Lansing in his retirement. Instead, the 65-year-old found himself disembarking at …