This Friday marks the end of week three for the 2022 legislative session. We have continued to have subcommittees on a wide range of policy proposals. As we narrow down the focus of the bills we expect to move through committee and the full Senate chamber, time becomes of the essence. This ...
Week three of the session is done and things are moving along rapidly. However, this past week has been a slow one for me personally. I came down with symptoms of Covid over the weekend, tested positive and had to spend five days in quarantine at home. Symptoms were mild, but I followed the ...
There was this bully who always picked on this poor kid just about every single day. The kid would be threatened, pushed around and teased by the bully. Finally the kid had had enough. When he saw the bully the next day, he drew a line in the dirt and challenged the bully to cross over that ...
The other day I was a-thinking. Yea, I do think every now and then but not too darn much so as to get a headache. But I was thinking, (money being no object), what would I give all of you for Christmas if I could. New cars for everyone came to mind; huge raises for all; the Christmas lights ...
It all started the day after Thanksgiving when a shipment of 75-100 Christmas Trees came to our grocery store for sale to one and all. What an exciting time. The fresh smell of all those pine-fir trees was enough to make a kid of ten or eleven feel as if he's in heaven. It's 1960 and it's ...
Well my good friends, the beginning of December is here. Thanksgiving is over and the Christmas season is now officially here. How many can go back eleven months and remember those resolutions or goals we made back on January first? Hmmm, I have only about 30 days or so to lose 25 pounds, ...
Everyone has their favorite holiday. Mine is Christmas Eve. Love it. But, alas, it's Thanksgiving time soon, so we must give this special holiday it's fair share of time. After all, Thanksgiving seems to be getting to be an after-thought between Halloween, (did you see all the decorations this ...
I’m thankful for many things, not the least being having a President who cares, perhaps too much, about the health and well-being of everyone. He cares not only for Democrats, but for everyone, even the Trumpers who ridicule and despise him. If the tables were turned, Trump was still ...
As a candidate for the House of Representatives for the 72nd, here’s some of the multiple project I’d like to see happen. Make the former Iowa Juvenile Home a corporate park. Since 14 UFOs buzzed the USS Saratoga, it’s a small leap, they have high end technology companies like General ...
It has been a challenge for the Wieting Theatre Guild these past 19 months with the derecho and COVID-19. Safety of our volunteers and patrons has been our continued concern. At this time movies are only shown on Friday and Sunday evenings to small crowds with masks recommended and the ...