You’d think that the three extra years Congress has taken to update the 2018 Farm Bill might mean it stumbled upon solutions to today’s falling farm income, sagging ag exports, the need for more …

My name is Don Johannsen. I am a landowner in Cherokee County directly affected by the proposed 1,070 mile Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline in Iowa. Over the last five years, Summit and the Iowa …

Every morning a new horror hatches such that you forget the day before, or the year before, with its daily minor cataclysms. Trump is on the computer holding a machine gun warning Iran that they …

Buena Vista County Republicans noted with some disappointment the no-shows at a candidate forum the local party sponsored at Buena Vista University on Saturday, April 18: US Senate candidate Ashley …

I finally met Byron of Byron’s fame. You know, the quirky music venue in Pomeroy, a sleepy northwest Iowa town, like so many others, towns that once supported their own school systems and sports …

I had a commentary on foreign policy on my mind for this week. I still do. But it can wait. The attempted attack at the White House Correspondents dinner in Washington last Saturday can’t. …

The maddening part of today’s fertilizer crush is not the steep price spikes that hit U.S. farmers immediately after the Trump Administration went to war with Iran Feb. 28. Nor is it that …

We are now into overtime as last Tuesday marked the 100th day and the scheduled final day of the legislative session. We continue working on big issues and important bills, and we are excited for the …

Brother Bill and I joked that we felt like Jake and Elwood seeking out Sister Mary Stigmata as we approached Mount Loretto, the Dubuque motherhouse of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed …

You could put up $80 million worth of hog buildings in Cherokee County and the board of supervisors might just as well go howl at the moon trying to block it. But if that $80 million is for solar …

Anyone who spends time doing kitchen prep has favorite tools or appliances, and no two people’s will be the same. Three of mine are so low-tech as to be laughable, but I would be lost without them. …

Come July, Iowa employers may want to add an ominous warning on their job application forms: tell a lie and you could go to jail. That’s right — no more puffing the resume with false degrees …

As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday this year, it seems worthwhile to consider how closely we’ve hewed to the Founders’ vision for their new creation, and likewise how far …

Central Dublin’s busy O’Connell Street became a parking lot a week ago when Irish farmers and truck drivers parked their tractors and trucks on its River Liffey bridge to protest nationwide …

Al Ries and Jack Trout are considered America’s foremost marketing strategists, where their seven solo- and co-authored books are bestsellers. Three of their books became standard readings for my …

We are in the fourteenth week of the legislative session, and we continued debating throughout the week, working with the House on bills going back and forth between our chambers. With our 100-day …

Politics is a dirty game, but does it have to be? We should be used to it by now, but thankfully we’re not so numb to its tactics that we can still find them distasteful, disgusting, immoral and …

Abby Elsbernd from the Quad Cities was glad to learn that the revered and recently retired football coach at Northern Iowa, Mark Farley, is known as the “walk-on from Waukon.” The Grinnell …

“What a world, what a world,” cried the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. We can utter that same cry every day, every day. What kind of a world is it where a president and his …

Winnie the Pooh turns 100 years old this year. Not bad for A Bear of Very Little Brain, as he was wont to describe himself. My folks introduced me to Pooh some 80 years ago, about 20 years after his …