Happy Labor Day and start of the school year! I cannot believe August is over already. The summer months seem to go by so fast, but the cooler air is refreshing and finally a slow down on lawn mowing. One of the main topics discussed by the Board of Supervisors in August was the Salt Creek ...
Editor's note: Mary McBee passed away on Saturday, Aug. 30. Huge corporate-owned farms and corporate animal factories are not “farms.” They are industries created solely to bring in highest profits while avoiding responsibility for all damages caused. For decades these industries have ...
Do you think Iowa Att. Gen. Bird would justify Me or any common Citizen for shooting and killing another person who was carrying a toy or fake gun? Has she ever found anything wrong with any police killings of Citizens? The gestapo is never wrong. Republican lawmakers have given police so much ...
I’m writing this from cross country camp—our annual tradition of running too many miles, eating too much pasta, and pretending sleeping in bunk beds is somehow good for “team bonding.” Two years ago, I was here in the exact same camp in who knows where Illinois, but I was a very ...
I have the same upsetting concerns felt by all of us — for example, cuts in Medicare, growing the national debt, rising prices — all are really worrisome. But I must refer to another concern where our representatives and senators have let us down. The federal funding for Iowa Public TV ...
Many rural Coloradans, especially in agricultural communities, feel looked down on by their urban counterparts. One cattle rancher I spoke to put it plainly. “It’s an attitude … we are the idiots … we are the dumb farmers … we don’t really matter.” The sentiment is also ...
Finally, we're the "top of the class." Eighth graders at St Joseph's School in Chelsea, Iowa. Top dogs! No more being second-class runts! We're the Cats! Numero Uno! Our 8th grade class of 1963/64 included Lindi, Becky, Jeanne, Connie, Susie, Marlene, Kathy, Tom, Tom, the twins, Jim ...
I believe memory is sometimes a collective thing. Occasionally, a person will have a memory which will cause another to remember something else which will then in turn cause another to remember something entirely different. However, if all this sparks from your Ma remembering something from ...
There’s nothing quite like the Iowa State Fair to remind you what “Iowan culture” really means. Naturally, I went with my friend Tommy to do some deep anthropological research, because what better way to study culture than by watching a group of women holler “Haaaarrrr-old!” at the ...
Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) changes the lives of nearly one in eight people in central Iowa, around 25,000 people per year. Poverty isn’t unique to us—it touches nearly every town and county in the U.S., but what is happening in Tama County, Iowa, isn’t the same as in Dallas County, ...