Who you are makes all the difference in the world.
Or so it seems.
Two examples illustrate this fact of modern day life in our United States.
Randy Evans
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It’s nothing short of a miracle that the people of Iowa have not taken up pitchforks and marched on Des Moines demanding the attention of government officials.
As things
One of Iowa’s talented historians delivered an important lesson last week. But instead of standing in front of a school classroom, he was in the chamber of the Iowa
Last week was a time for setbacks in the United States. The only question is which setback was greater.
Was it President Donald Trump’s standing in the eyes of
A new year is just around the corner.
But instead of tipping a celebratory glass of champagne on New Year’s Eve, a big tumbler filed with Maalox seems more
You’ve got to hand it to people along America’s Gulf Coast who support their families as commercial shrimpers and fishermen.
They certainly are patient.
For the past 25
Each summer at schools across Iowa, a new batch of kindergartners heads in the front door for the first time. Not surprisingly, there are occasional tears.
Some flow from the
Back in my working days, back when I supervised The Des Moines Register’s business news staff, one of the columnists confessed to our readers that he had trouble balancing
A long-ago newspaper article about Bill Clinton came to opinion columnist Randy Evans' mind last week because of the controversy that exploded over the Washington Post disclosures about U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
If our households operated the way the United States does, members of our extended families would be planning an intervention to get us to see the error of our ways.
