Acrimony and animosity have not provided a very fitting backdrop for the tranquility that is supposed to accompany the Christmas season. Thoughts on a special friendship between a cat litter scientist from Iowa and an NBA legend.
We Americans are an impatient bunch. We typically don’t like to wait in line --- unless there’s something we truly want, like much-sought-after concert tickets or whatever this year’s Tickle Me Elmo gift was on Black Friday.
In those early years, my attitude toward money was pretty simple, mostly falling along the lines of “more is better.” However, in the years since that sweaty introduction to free enterprise, I have come to realize that money is not the most important thing around.
Iowa is out of step with other states when it comes to a basic right --- the right to vote in our elections, columnist Randy Evans writes in this opinion piece. For most of its history, Iowa has prohibited felons from voting.
Iowa is speeding toward a dangerous crossroads this week, and there has been too little discussion about what might occur and zero discussion about what the state should do.
David prevailed over Goliath in the famous tale from long ago using an unconventional weapon, his sling and a few stones.
These days, river rocks aren’t a potent weapon.
Let’s skip the debate over whether our president bears even a smidgen of blame for contributing to the domestic terrorist incidents last week in the United States. Let’s agree we are never going to agree, so there’s no use driving each other’s blood pressure higher by talking more about that.
Each year in October, when the Iowa countryside transforms from gorgeous summer greens to harvest season hues of tan, some of the world’s top agricultural scientists and anti-hunger activists gather in Des Moines to compare notes. The occasion is the presentation of the annual World Food Prize.
There’s an old expression that officials of Indian Hills Community College obviously have not heard about — or have chosen to ignore.
The expression is simple: If you find yourself
Some of the most stressful memories I have of my school days involve the words, “We’re going to have a pop quiz today.” Don’t panic, but there’s a pop quiz today.
Most Iowans are pretty frugal. They don’t waste their money. They especially don’t like it when they believe government officials fritter away our tax money.
That’s why
