Father to the rescue
During a hot summer evening of 1951, my brother Dale and I learned something new about our dad.
We found out he could be both brave and tough.
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During a hot summer evening of 1951, my brother Dale and I learned something new about our dad.
We found out he could be both brave and tough.
A four-laned Highway 30 across Iowa has been a vision of leaders in counties and towns along the route for decades.
Today I take down a little newspaper clipping that either Jake Kurtz or Joey Aguirre stuck to my computer screen.
When I was a kid, I had several collections over the years, as many kids do. Some adults do, too, of course, many of them consisting of highly valuable objects.
A conversation I’ve had with a number of Latino politicos and community activists in Iowa through the years starts like this on my end:
I’m a sucker for alternate-reality scenarios, as most comic book geeks are — everything from Charles Dickens’ original “what if” story, “A Christmas Carol,” to “Back to the Future II” to the old Ma
An incident in Jefferson back around the turn of the 20th century, almost totally unknown today, must have been the big topic of conversation in whatever coffee shops, social clubs, professional or
It seems we have labels on most everything we buy in this country informing us where the product came from.
Made in China. Made in Thailand. Even the elusive Made in the U.S.A. label.
Would it be a good thing if more people voted in American elections?
Some would say no.
America, it would seem, owes Congressman Steve King a collective apology.