Ten years ago this month, Sen. Mary Landrieu and I founded the bipartisan Senate Caucus on Foster Youth. We launched this caucus a decade ago to give voice to the thousands of young people in America who deserved a platform to break the silence on the challenges and success stories of foster ...
Every year has its ups and downs and 2019 was no different. Probably for each one of you, there were times of celebration and times of sadness and disappointment. Life is life and whatever happens, we have to decide how we're going to react to it. And when one year ends and another begins, the ...
"Switching off" and turning to print is better for your health and it may also be the answer to a good night's sleep.The prevalence and use of electronics in all aspects of daily life is steadily increasing with the average U.S. adult spending 6.3 hours each day with digital media, over half of ...
A song I remember from the late 60's was Zager and Evan's "In the Year 2525" -depressing song at best, detailing a pessimistic future.Although longevity runs in our family, I won't be around to check out their accuracy.But I am looking forward to the Year 2020, even though my eyes haven't been ...
For some people, the passing of Hayden Fry might not carry much meaning.But for those who have been Hawk fans for decades, his memory brings back some wonderful moments.To put things into perspective, the situation had been this. Iowa had a fantastically successful program under Forest ...
Marshalltown Community College is here to provide a high quality, success-focused education for all students. We are proud of our diverse student body that represents (among other characteristics) students ranging in age from 16 to 60, including 69 international students, and many students ...
My wife gave live birth three times, and we share the grief with those who've lost a child. Yet, as a child is born, there is the woman's pain of giving birth, yet instant joy with that first cry of the newborn.Few women ever experience a "normal" child being born. With our first child, my wife ...
In 1897, Dr. Philip O'Hanlon, a coroner's assistant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was asked by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia O'Hanlon (18891971), whether Santa Claus really existed. O'Hanlon suggested she write to The Sun, a prominent New York City newspaper at the time, assuring ...
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 ...
The Iowa Board of Regents unanimously approved an agreement Tuesday turning operation and management of the University of Iowa power plant and water treatment plant over to a French business consortium in return for a payment of $1.1 billion to the school. The decision came minutes after the ...