Last week, I was disheartened to learn that the United States Postal Service has decided to cancel mail service on Saturdays.The change is scheduled to take place in August, and I am strongly opposed to the move.For generations, Iowans have relied on the post office for quick and dependable ...
During the 2013 Iowa Legislative session, The Chronicle and News-Herald will submit questions to the Tama County delegation:State Senator Steve Sodders (D-State Center) and State representative Dean Fisher (R-Garwin.)If you have a question you would like considered for submission, send it to ...
About this time every year, I begin to gt surprised looks from people when I talk about all the activities happening on my family's farm near Dodge, Neb. Together with my husband, we feed cattle and raise corn, soybeans and alfalfa. While the crops may not require a great deal of attention in ...
On Sunday Feb. 10, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham threatened to block a vote on Hagel's confirmation and Obama's nomination of John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency unless the White House provides more information about the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, ...
On February 5th, our country marked the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) a groundbreaking law that provides American workers with 12 weeks of protected - albeit unpaid - leave to recover from a serious illness or care for a new child or seriously ill family member. A ...
During the 2013 Iowa Legislative session, The Chronicle and News-Herald will submit questions to the Tama County delegation:State Senator Steve Sodders (D-State Center) and State representative Dean Fisher (R-Garwin.)If you have a question you would like considered for submission, send it to ...
"Every single day, water is flowing through the gates. When you see that rolling, turbulent water going by, that is wasted renewable energy," according to Mark Stover of Hydro Green Energy. Unfortunately, he is correct. According to the U.S. Department of Energy ten dams along the Iowa portion ...
Q: What exactly is sequestration?A: Sequestration is a process of automatic, largely across-the-board permanent spending reductions. The process was created in 1985 in the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act. More recently, Congress included sequestration as an enforcement tool in the Budget Control Act ...
Would it surprise you to learn that for the past five years Iowa Valley Community College District has had the highest percent of international students among all of Iowa's 15 community colleges? Nearly five percent of our students are international, compared to one percent at the other Iowa ...
During the 2013 Iowa Legislative session, The Chronicle and News-Herald will submit questions to the Tama County delegation:State Senator Steve Sodders (D-State Center) and State representative Dean Fisher (R-Garwin.)If you have a question you would like considered for submission, send it to ...