As a former combat Marine, and a disabled Vietnam veteran, I was both sadly disappointed and troubled by the news …
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Bob Watson Guest Columnists Mar. 20, 2024 9:24 am688d ago
As a former combat Marine, and a disabled Vietnam veteran, I was both sadly disappointed and troubled by the news …
William Lambers Guest Columnists Mar. 25, 2024 3:47 pm683d ago
Guest Column | William Lambers It was March 1945 and the Allied Expeditionary Force, under the command of Gen. Dwight …
Norman Sherman
Guest Columnists Mar. 18, 2024 5:00 am691d ago
The Devil made me read it. He really did. He forced me to read the speech Donald Trump gave to …
Guest Columnists Mar. 17, 2024 5:00 am692d ago
Guest Column | Jim Caligiuri Farmers and ranchers represent just 1 percent of the population, yet tend to almost half …
Kurt Ullrich
Guest Columnists Mar. 17, 2024 5:00 am692d ago
It’s March. I know this for a fact because Canada geese that survived folks shooting at them over the winter …
John Hendrickson and Rusty Cannon
Guest Columnists Mar. 17, 2024 12:53 pm691d ago
Property taxes are a top concern for many Iowans. The growing frustration over high property taxes surpasses political party identification …
Steve Corbin Guest Columnists Mar. 16, 2024 5:00 am693d ago
Conventional wisdom, witnessed by talking to your next door neighbors, friends and even strangers, reveals contemporary American politics is deeply …
Seth Stern Guest Columnists Mar. 15, 2024 1:39 pm693d ago
The PRESS Act would stop federal agencies and judges from forcing journalists to burn their sources, except to stop terrorism or other life or death emergencies. It would also stop them from spying on journalists through technology providers.
Bruce Lear
Guest Columnists Mar. 14, 2024 10:07 am694d ago
House File 2652 was originally a $3 million grant program to purchase emergency radios for schools, but gun-loving legislators amended the bill to focus on firearms training, paying for the gun permitting process, stipends for employees agreeing to be armed, and for purchase of the weapons.
Norman Sherman
Guest Columnists Mar. 25, 2024 3:58 pm683d ago
Guest columnist Norman Sherman reflects on poem written not long after Donald Trump was sworn in as president.
William Lambers
Guest Columnists Mar. 14, 2024 9:55 am694d ago
Eglantyne Jebb made rescuing children her life mission and drafted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1924.
Chad Kaeppel
Guest Columnists Mar. 14, 2024 9:52 am694d ago
The Credit Card Competition Act is anything but competitive and would pose a significant threat to American consumers’ financial security and will hurt Iowa’s credit unions and small banks.
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