I had every intention this week of telling you a silly story about my friend Mike and me encountering small rodents and being absolutely petrified. I promise, it’s a good one. However, the state of the world felt like a more important thing to address right now than my admittedly pathetic ...
Public schools are just beginning to feel the effects of the voucher system. With fewer students and less money, they must make hard decisions. They have to let personnel go and perhaps even close schools. Nobody should argue against school choice, which is provided by vouchers. It gives ...
Last year, more than 4,600 Iowa taxpayers helped boost wildlife conservation with donations to the Fish and Wildlife Fund on their state tax form. This represents a decline of 12 percent from the 2023 tax year. Overall, the number of donors to the long-standing check-off have declined by more ...
Do you have an idea on how to improve your school, neighborhood, community, county, state, nation or beyond? Then attend the Iowa Caucuses on Monday, February 2, 2026, at 7 p.m. Write a plank and submit it for a vote to then be submitted to the county platform committee if adopted. This is the ...
This week, Iowa House Republicans released House Study Bill 596, our property tax proposal to put the taxpayers first. This plan is not about protecting the status quo for taxing entities; it is about creating predictability and protecting the bank accounts of hardworking Iowans. For too long ...
My parents have been married for over forty years, which has spawned many stories. I would be neglectful in my narration if I didn’t mention the story of the cupcake and the bush. My father, the old one, is not a romantic type. Aniversaries, Valentines, and other days of note usually come ...
I don’t like mice. Never have, never will. While my experiences go way back to when I was a wee boy, not much has changed. I couldn’t have been more than ten years old when, after many years of hard work and service, we decided to replace our cherished four-slice toaster. It was on the ...
Donald Trump on television instead of saying all the great things he has done Trump was bashing Biden. That is what you get when you elect old senile people like Trump and Grassley. When will republicans blame Biden for paying a porn star to keep her mouth shut? Whoops, that was Trump. The ...
We have turned the page on another year at the Tama County Board of Supervisors. Mid-January means that it is time for budget hearings and discussions. When the new board took over last January, we promised transparency and made a commitment to the taxpayer to use sound budgeting principles. ...
I didn’t like rollercoasters when I was little. That feels like a strange thing to admit now, especially considering how much I enjoy them today, but for a long time I was perfectly content staying on the ground. I remember trips to Adventureland where my dad and sister would disappear into ...