It will all come down to 12 folks shut up in a room by themselves. No observers, no attorneys, no media, no cameras, and no judges present. Former President Donald Trump’s legal fate in …

Betting on political contests is prohibited in America. Yet, gambling organizations throughout the world strongly predict Joe Biden (D) and Donald Trump (R) will be the 2024 presidential election …

  Campaigning for public office is no picnic. Day after day there are speeches, Q&A’s, interviews and the constant need to think before you speak. Candidates eat enough chicken to …

We had the pleasure of attending a Practical Farmers of Iowa field day at the Zack Smith farm just east of Buffalo Center in Winnebago County. The heat dome lifted for a glorious Saturday morning as …

New Little Sioux Corn Processors (LSCP) CEO Nick Bowdish appeared to be part benefactor, part mercenary in his initial visit recently with the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors. No doubt an …

Here we sit sweating it out under a heat dome. It’s supposed to get hot in an Iowa summer, but like this? One heat dome after another. Then a shower just in the nick of time. They say it’s a sign …

As the world continues to be ravaged by deadly weather catastrophes, we wonder with grave concern how long most Republican congressmen and presidential candidates can keep ignoring climate change, …

Freedom demands eternal vigilance, and that is what the Marion County Record in Kansas was up to when the 4,000-circulation weekly newspaper north of Wichita was raided by local police last week. The …

Many obituaries and death notices today resemble “cut and paste” of each other, although in the passing of Computer Scientist Larry Tesler, it is more true than ever. Tesler died in 2020 and …

  Hello once again, readers! As the days grow shorter and the scent of sharpened pencils fills the air, the excitement of back-to-school season is upon us! As parents, you play a pivotal role in …

A 50% jump in the inmate population at the Cherokee MHI CCUSO (Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders) has many wondering what is going on and where are they all coming from? First off, we must …

Book banning is bad business, as school and city officials are finding out in Alta. The school will need to ban potentially hundreds of books if they refer to sex under a new state law. That means …

I’m sitting in a heat dome while Mitch McConnell freezes up on TV, and an aide whispers to Sen. Diane Feinstein to vote “aye.” Everything is fine, McConnell said, after not blinking for 20 …

We hope the odorous smell of cowardice at last week’s Republican Lincoln Dinner in the Des Moines Civic Center did not taint the food. After all, digesting anything delivered that night had to be …

The two best movies about Iowa are The Music Man and Field of Dreams for their wry and subtle understanding of our culture. No arguments about it. Don’t even bring up State Fair or Bridges of …

The unassuming founders of the RAGBRAI phenomenon that enthralls Iowans and the bicycling world every summer were smiling wide from their heavenly sag wagons last week as the 50th RAGBRAI rolled …

Hello once again, readers! With the end of the fair, summer is winding down at the library. It is this time of the year that library staff and myself sit down for a meeting to discuss major projects …

The success of a city and its status among other cities of comparable size lies in the effectiveness of a town’s administration. This includes the city council, city administrator, department …

It says something about the quality of one’s character that a Republican presidential candidate would submit to questioning on stage by the biggest fraud in America other than Donald Trump. Tucker …