We have finished week three of the session. Committee work continues to be the focus as we work through our bills. One of the priorities of the House Republicans is expanding Child Support. HF 2103 requires child support to apply while the child is still in the womb. This would mean a ...
A few weeks ago, after reading my column, my Dad came up to me and said, "Can ya ever write about somethin' good I did?" Joking, I said, "When ya do somethin' good, I'll write about it." And, well, if you're reading this old man, let's just say this story ain't gonna earn ya a gold star, but ...
Week two of the session is done, this is the week when we begin our work on bills in earnest. I’ve chaired a few subcommittee’s this week for bill’s assigned to me by the Public Safety Committee chair, and served as a member of several others. I’m also working on writing and filing ...
I started this column thinking I might write about some of the things I’ve never yet done, like take an Alaskan cruise, drink ouzo in Greece, taste French bread in France or parent a dachshund. But I missed out on the most important never ever of all: Never, have I ever… played ...
Tiptoe is too great a phrase for it, and step is just an over exaggeration. My feet move forward, one then the other, a centimeter at a time, barely leaving the ground. My hands are out at my sides like a circus performer traveling across a wire. I think this helps, but in reality, it just ...
One of the great passages of generation to generation is the ago-old statement, "Why, boy, I remember when I was a kid, I had to walk five miles to school every day, uphill both ways." Or how about this one, "Listen boy, it was so cold when I was a kid that when I milked the cows, ice cream ...
The 2024 Legislative session began on Jan. 8, and as always, the first week was filled with speeches and all the ceremony that surrounds them. Of course, the highlight of those speeches is always the Governor’s Condition of the State address that was delivered by Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday ...
Dear editor, After the caucus, Trump said Brenna Bird would be a great governor. Everyone knows Trump is teed off at Kim Reynolds. Will Trump urge Brenna Bird to run against Kim Reynolds in the Republican primary for governor? Dennis Benda Toledo
Remember getting an “F” in school? Ok, you didn’t study and deserved the failing grade. But what about when you studied and got an “F” anyway? Oddly, bad grades stick in our minds more than good grades. In high school, my physics teacher had multiple-choice questions on quizzes and ...
It was around two in the morning. I was sitting on the couch in the living room watching TV. My father suddenly appeared. He had on slippers and a pair of underwear that should have been put out of their misery in the mid-nineties. He walked past me, out the front door, out the porch, and into ...