Opinions
By Kris Kenison
While school may be starting this week, and thoughts are turning to the year ahead, for many, thoughts are turning to school years past and time spent in the classrooms of two teachers who passed away last week, Polly Schiltz and David Peterson.
Mr. Peterson was one of those...
Once upon a time, Iowa was the center of the universe.
In August 1869, exactly 150 years ago, scientists and sky watchers descended on Iowa to study a solar eclipse. It was the Midwest’s last total solar eclipses of the 19th century – and the first to be photographed.
“This eclipse was the first...
Echoes from the Loafers' Club Meeting
What is the state sport?
Hockey?
Ha! Don't make me laugh. It's not basketball, baseball, softball, football or roller derby either.
Then what is it?
Complaining about the weather.
Driving by Bruce's drive
I have a wonderful neighbor, named Bruce. Whenever...
Here is an answer to a question that I've never been asked. "What do you do when you don't have an opinion article for the side of the page?"
Well, here's my answer. You start typing in the space and continue doing so until you run out of space. Am I an expert in this? A trained person with lots...
Looking out my kitchen window to the backyard all I see now is grass and a few flowers. No kiddie pool. No Sam and Georgie Girl swimming in the pool’s cool water.
But let me take you back to how it all started. It was Good Friday 2002, three days before Easter Sunday. I was looking for a newborn...