Last week we celebrated National Civility Day, and I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you that brought the current political divide into a more profound perspective for me.In June of 2017, at the Republican team practice for the Congressional Baseball Game (a bipartisan game to ...
Q: What needs to be done to fix our nation's immigration policies?A: By all accounts, the current immigration system is broken. The last major overhaul was adopted 32 years ago in 1986. Unfortunately, the Immigration Reform and Control Act did not live up to its promises.In exchange for ...
"If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of"- USS Liberty survivorOn June 8, 1967, Israeli war planes and torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, an intelligence gathering ship, while it was on a signals collections mission in international waters off the Sinai ...
As I go about my work of helping communities revitalize and reinvent themselves, I often get to see the best of America and I'm reminded that the foundations that built this country are still just as important today.It's long been said that America is all about rugged individualism, and that is ...
It's been six months since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law. Since then, there have been continuous, positive economic developments in Iowa and throughout the country.Last month, the U.S. economy generated 223,000 new jobs. In fact, more than one million new jobs have been created ...
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 ...