A News-Herald editorial concerning the need for a study of mandating ambulance service in Iowa was emailed to Iowa's 50 state senators. Some replied - some did not.The idea is this issue might be one the legislators take up for a look during the interim committee work.The editorial has even ...
Q: What's on the table for renewing the next Farm Bill?A: The Agricultural Act of 2014, more commonly known as the Farm Bill, will expire on Sept. 30. The sweeping farm and food law typically is updated every five years. It sets the legal framework for administering a broad range of public ...
Do you use social media as a news source? Are you sure you can separate fact from fiction?In January 2018, Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times decided to turn off all his digital news notifications, unplug from social networks, and subscribe to three print newspapers and a weekly magazine. ...
The GreatWar 1914-1918Flanders Poppy on the First World War battlefields.By John McCrae, May 1915In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short ...
Many years ago, my great uncle purchased a grocery store in Hopkins, Missouri from a previous owner. When he and his family started preparing the store for the grand opening, they found that many of the items they thought were on the shelves were actually empty containers and that the actual ...
Seventy three years ago on April 25, American and Soviet soldiers met as wartime allies against Nazi Germany in the closing days of World War II near Torgau, an obscure German town on the Elbe River.It was a historic embrace of men in arms allied against a terrible foe that represented an ...
In the LegislatureAnother busy pro-Iowa, pro-growth year in the 87th General Assembly has come to a close!A big promise was kept for Iowans. This session the legislature passed historic tax relief for Iowa taxpayers and families. Iowa has the fourth highest top individual tax rate, and that top ...
There have always been killings amongst humans beyond the constant larger wars, and there have long been 'individual assassinations' of presidents, of beloved or brutal leaders. The weapons used varied from rocks, hatchets, spears, poisons, acids, guns, bombs, fires, gases, vehicles and ...
May is School Board Recognition Month and an opportunity for local schools and communities to honor more than 2,000 locally elected school board members for their dedication to children and schools.In the South Tama Schools and Iowa Valley Community?College District school board members develop ...
Tariffs aren't the only issue on the table when it comes to U.S.-China relations. That fact was a major take-away from our recent trip to China, where we met with some of the country's top business and political leaders.The United States has been a consistently dominant economic force in the ...