It’s risky when lawmakers play doctor, yet that’s what Iowa legislators do when they return to Des Moines every January. This session is no different. A long list of bills eschews scientific …

In the wake of the tragic shooting in Perry, Iowans have demanded workable and effective school security measures. A recent poll in the Des Moines Register indicated 60% of Iowans supported the …

Iowa is mad about basketball, not just in March. Only Indiana and Kansas are crazier about it. I went basketball nuts in 1968 when Storm Lake won the boys’ state title over Des Moines Roosevelt. …

A few days ago, I woke to an astounding thing. Some 75-year-old guy was staring back at me from the bathroom mirror. Wow, I said to myself. Just … wow. Honestly, I never expected to …

When you’re driving, maybe in a hurry, have you ever wondered how much speed affects your mileage? A study by Tom Moloughney on his YouTube car channel showed it has a dramatic effect. He drove the …

Like many people who call this state home, I have long taken an interest in the careers and achievements of people who have gotten their start in Iowa. As a kid, I was fascinated to walk through …

Last week, I lost a friend. Jon Kruse is well-known to many in my district. He served his community of Storm Lake for many years in various leadership roles, on city council, and serving as mayor. He …

The fact that arming teachers garners 60% support in The Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll released last week affirms that we like our guns, and that we are so exasperated by school shootings we …

By State Rep. Megan Jones | R-Sioux Rapids This session, the legislature has advanced seven bills to address mental health care in Iowa. These bills build on the work the legislature has done …

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address last week   became his first big campaign speech, with Super Tuesday fresh in his wake and November straight ahead. That’s okay, because the …

I had a heart attack a few weeks ago. All is well. That Tuesday night about 7 p.m., I was sitting at the press table at the Jefferson City Council meeting, taking notes, when my chest started to …

People have been telling us country bumpkins for a long time what’s wrong with us. After awhile, you begin to believe it. “What’s the matter with Kansas?” William Allen White of the …

Veterans For Peace is an organization of former soldiers and allies who know too well the costs of war — the obvious, visible wounds; the unseen wounds that curse us and our families for …

So far this winter, Republicans have introduced multiple bills in the Iowa General Assembly designed to battle a fever dream of conservative buzzwords and bugaboos, most pumped with disinformation …

Your old warhorse was back in the saddle last week, taking pictures at the state basketball tournament for the first time since 2011. With two Buena Vista County teams — Sioux Central and …

Conventional wisdom, witnessed by talking to your next door neighbors, friends and even strangers, reveals contemporary American politics is deeply polarized. Rachel Kleinfeld of the Carnegie …

Storm Lake has an animal control problem. The city council just heard from a man who wants to bring his exiled, aggressive dog back into the city. Pedestrians walk with baseball bats after reports of …

Like much of the news anymore, the initial numbers from the 2022 Census of Agriculture were accurately reported, quickly downplayed — or even worse, ignored — by most Big Ag groups, and then just …

  TV reporter Katie Couric visited Storm Lake a few years ago for a NatGeo special on immigration that featured Storm Lake. Couric asked Storm Lake Times Pilot Editor Art Cullen about what has …

Gov. Kim Reynolds put reorganization of government at the center of her legislative agenda this session. It is not working out well, if you judge by her disastrous plan to gut Area Education …