The electric power sector is facing an unprecedented workforce crisis in the next five years due to attrition and retirements. Replacing the workforce now will help ensure that valuable knowledge and experience is not lost as the workforce reaches retirement age. Iowa Valley has programs in ...
-Submitted by a News-Herald reader from an email he received with hopes it will boost the adoption efforts of the Tama County Humane Society Shelter in Tama.They told me the big black Lab'sname was Reggie, as I looked at him lying in his pen. The shelter was clean, no-kill, and the people ...
An open letter to The Atlantic:The opinion piece by Stephen Bloom, a professor at the University of Iowa, has generated considerable statewide and national reactions about Iowa. I disagree strongly with and was offended by Professor Bloom's portrayal of Iowa and Iowans. Please know that he does ...
As we approach Christmas and ponder all of the implications of Christ's birth one of the activities many may engage in prior to the opening of gifts is the reading of the Christmas story. There are only two chapters in the Bible where the lineage of Jesus Christ is given. One is found in Luke ...
Iowans are blessed with two of the greatest gifts that could ever be given the gift of bountiful and rich natural resources that provide a dynamic social and economic vitality. The second gift is a special set of citizens that respect and enjoy that bounty and the livelihood and cultural ...
Iowans will welcome friends and family home for the holidays this month to celebrate the joys of the season together. Kids home from college and relatives from far and near will gather under one roof to enjoy each other's company. For U.S. military families, the return of 45,000 troops from ...
Iowa's greatest-generation war heroes need your help: 1,000 U.S. World War II veterans die each day. This why Central & Western Iowa Honor Flight created a fund designed to help get these incomparable men and women to the National War Memorial in Washington, D.C. and Arlington National ...
Every Democrat in the Iowa Legislature was opposed to Governor Branstad's preschool program, and many have expressed opposition to his proposed education reforms. However, not all Democrats in other state Legislatures are opposed to the use of scholarships to address education failure. All ...
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. A total of twelve ships sank or were beached in the attack and nine ...