Iowa is likely to carry for Donald Trump, even though he would wreck the Tall Corn State economy. The state is crazy in that way. First order of business: Deport Mexicans. Hasta la vista, …
Iowa Republicans resorted to the most extreme tactic to preserve their hold on all four congressional seats. They were so scared of losing in two of those races that they knocked the Libertarian …
Buena Vista and Cherokee counties have essentially recovered the jobs lost during the pandemic, according to figures compiled by The New York Times from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Buena …
Gov. Kim Reynolds is playing politics with child nutrition, much like her colleagues in Congress who are trying to gut feeding programs in the long-delayed Farm Bill. Reynolds refused $29 …
It feels like the ground shifted under rural America since President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid. Vice President Kamala Harris is off to an electrifying start, tying or leading Donald …
We strolled past the booths Saturday at the Blue Water Festival in Arnolds Park celebrating water quality and spotted a poster made by some kid that claimed wind turbines degrade water quality. …
Kamala Harris and the Democrats do well to have Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on their national ticket as the vice-presidential nominee. He’s rural, for real. Walz has broad appeal in Upper Midwest …
Donald Trump is trying to run away from Project 2025, a legislative blueprint for the next administration drafted by the Heritage Foundation that collects in one place conservative thinking since the …
Sen. JD Vance didn’t drop his carpet bag in East Palestine, Ohio, long enough to make a difference before catching the first train to greater fame as Donald Trump’s running mate. The …
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump was not a conspiracy. It was the action of a lone, 20-year-old man armed with an assault rifle who somehow climbed onto a building just 175 yards away and …
The Iowa Public Information Board’s staff made a swift and important determination that a flood committee created by the Dickinson County Board of Supervisors illegally met in …
God works in mysterious ways with a wicked sense of humor, I mused last week. God the Father, with the long white beard and big index finger. Damn straight, I'm driving to Spencer last Tuesday …
If Joe Biden is using a walker with an oxygen tank attached, and if his eyelids are propped up by toothpicks, and if he cannot debate after supper time, we will vote for him on Election Day with …
God works in mysterious ways with a wicked sense of humor, I mused last week. God the Father, with the long white beard and big index finger. Damn straight, I’m driving to Spencer last …
It must be that time of year — we’re sick of bird flu as the geese take roost. Yet another Sioux County dairy barn has been infected. A turkey flock in Cherokee County was wiped out. …
Ever since Father’s Day I’ve felt second-rate after reading the heaps of praise on dear old dad. I wasn’t so great in the Ward Cleaver role. It has struck me since that God the …
You may think that climate change is a hoax, or that it is something in the future, or it is not related to the gasoline we burn to rubberneck the flooding at Sioux Rapids or Cherokee, or with the way we farm and produce protein. Shriveled night crawler corpses baked on the Sunday morning pavement, roughly marking high flow from the night before raging down from Spencer through the Valley of the Little Sioux and choking off Cherokee. Stranded people in Rock Valley were rescued by boat and helicopter. It is real enough.
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is shrinking because of warming water and not because of less nitrate flowing in from the Mississippi River complex, according to two leading researchers. Dr. …
Denying human rights President Joe Biden denies America’s best tradition and hopes, and forgets his own heritage, by severely restricting the ability of refugees to claim asylum in the United …
The nation is paying more attention to avian flu as it jumps from fowl to cows to humans. A third dairy worker in Michigan came down with the virus, reporting respiratory problems. This is of …