I heard Ashley Hinson and Miller-Meeks knock president Biden and say how Donald Trump was a great president. When Trump was president, the Iowa State Fair was canceled, NCAA basketball tournament canceled, what sporting events we had were shortened when Trump was president. With Biden ...
The track team in high school practiced daily on an oval cinder track. As usual, the runners paced themselves and the same ones would place first, second and third each time with the same stragglers lagging. At one of the meets, the competing team was highly favored to win. As the starting ...
If you ate today, filled up your gas tank, or got dressed – you have a farmer to thank. Last week we celebrated National Agriculture Week, and the whole country rightly spotlighted the farmers and ranchers who feed and fuel the world. But saying thank you is far from enough – the best ...
Please be aware of the fact that easements have been signed by the absentee landowner of the farmland directly north, south and east of West Union Cemetery in Perry Township just east of Traer, with TED Renewables Land LLC, to build an Industrial Solar Complex. Just these two parcels alone ...
It's gonna be here real soon! Real Soon! Sheda's annual "Pet Peeve'' column. Once a year, I get all those nerve-racking little disturbances off my chest, and the older I get, the more pet peeves I seem to have. It just bothers me that the world just can't get along with me better. I'm ...
The legislature continues to bring bills to the floor and pass House bills to the Senate and Senate bills to the Governor’s desk. Two significant bills signed into law this week by the governor were the “Bathroom Bill” that prohibits persons from using the facilities that don’t ...
Some ads live on in infamy. On Feb. 21, 1931, the famous Alka-Seltzer advertisement emerged to miraculously claim relieve from no less than aching heads, feverish aches, a cold, upset gut, stomach jumps, discomforts, muscular aches, acid indigestion and heartburn! Simply a mixture of ...
The last two years have been full of changes for me - both huge and incremental. Many of my readers have accompanied me on my journey, and for that I’m forever grateful. It’s been fraught with grief, and sadness and even, at times, despair. And then again, hope and growth. But ...
Have you ever lost something and cannot find it? Most assuredly, as soon as I buy a new pair of socks, one of the pairs comes up missing in the wash. I rummage through all the clothes thinking it was hung up in the armpit of a hoodie or static clinging to the back of a dress shirt, but ...
My husband and I raised our kids in the land of hockey. This column is not about hockey. I realize hockey isn’t a thing or perhaps not as popular in some (warmer) climates, but for many years, for us, hockey was a large part of life. If nothing else, it got us through the cold ...