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It’s A Tragedy What Is NOT Happening Since Vegas

The funerals are over, all 58 of them. But the mourning goes on, as it has since that horrible night and as it will for countless nights to come.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 2 Nov 2017

It’s A Tragedy What Is NOT Happening Since Vegas

It’s Wrong To Keep Taxpayers In The Dark

One of the nastiest controversies in local government in Iowa in many years was the impeachment in May of Muscatine Mayor Diana Broderson by the city council. The case isn’t over.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 25 Oct 2017

It’s Wrong To Keep Taxpayers In The Dark

Lasting Lesson About Standing Out In A Crowd

Details are tucked away in the distant crevasses of my memory about one of life’s teachable moments. That lesson has stuck with me for nearly 60 years.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 19 Oct 2017

Lasting Lesson About Standing Out In A Crowd

In Times Like These, We Need More Empathy

When you look at the world around us -- with its hatred and bitterness, with its disagreements and divisiveness -- the quality most lacking today is empathy. We find it difficult, if not impossible, to put ourselves in each other’s shoes and see events and issues from their perspective.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 12 Oct 2017

In Times Like These, We Need More Empathy

Evans: Don’t Let Foolishness Get Us In Another War

A scab on the memories of lots of Americans was yanked off last week with the airing of the first segments of Ken Burns’ new documentary on the Vietnam war.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 28 Sep 2017

Evans: Don’t Let Foolishness Get Us In Another War

Equifax, Tell Us About Burdensome Regulations

Equifax Inc. announced on Sept. 7 that hackers had busted into its computer system. This isn’t just some random corporation, even though most people probably do not recognize its name.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 20 Sep 2017

Equifax, Tell Us About Burdensome Regulations

Openness In Salt Lake City, Why Not In Iowa?

When is Iowa going to catch up with the rest of the nation? Every week or two, another case makes headlines around the United States when a police officer acts in a way that many people find troubling.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 14 Sep 2017

Openness In Salt Lake City, Why Not In Iowa?

Free Speech Is For Those We Disagree With, Too

A group of Iowa activists met recently to chew over an assortment of issues facing Americans. ... One of the participants, a kind, no-nonsense woman from Boone, clearly was frustrated by the events recently in Charlottesville, Va.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 7 Sep 2017

Free Speech Is For Those We Disagree With, Too

Is This What We Want From Our State?

Where are our priorities, Iowa? Two news stories that grabbed the headlines in Iowa last week leave me shaking my head and asking, is this really what we want from our state government?

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 31 Aug 2017

Public Safety Needs To Come First

Don’t come knocking on my door looking for support for the Trump administration’s latest effort to get rid of what the president likes to call job-killing regulations. The reason, this op-ed piece explains, is personal.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 17 Aug 2017

A City’s Solution To A Nonexistent Problem

A Michigan mother’s way of coping with high college costs has drawn considerable attention. And, Randy Evans writes, it is pertinent to what is happening in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 10 Aug 2017

A City’s Solution To A Nonexistent Problem

This Is What The Scouts Deserved To Hear

A do-over. All of us, if we are honest, have wished for the opportunity for a fresh start at something at one time or another. Our president isn’t wired that way...

By Randy Evans / Stray Thoughts

/ 3 Aug 2017

It’s A Tragedy What Is NOT Happening Since Vegas

It’s Wrong To Keep Taxpayers In The Dark

Lasting Lesson About Standing Out In A Crowd

In Times Like These, We Need More Empathy

Evans: Don’t Let Foolishness Get Us In Another War

Equifax, Tell Us About Burdensome Regulations

Openness In Salt Lake City, Why Not In Iowa?

Free Speech Is For Those We Disagree With, Too

Is This What We Want From Our State?

Public Safety Needs To Come First

A City’s Solution To A Nonexistent Problem

This Is What The Scouts Deserved To Hear

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