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Opinion

What’s Happening at the Wieting?

Local Columns

Are you in need of a gift for anyone? The Wieting has a gift for sale that will please anyone who enjoys going to a movie.We have two different gifts that are available.First we have a five punch card to any movie either a 3-D or 2-D.Also available are combo cards. You get a small pop corn, a ...

It’s time to get politically correct!!

Local Columns

Do you remember being asked these two questions from time to time; "If not now, when" and "If not me, who"? Well folks this ol' curmudgeon has decided the time is now and it's me that has to change.I am entering the "politically correct" world. At least to the best of my ability. Won't be easy ...

Touring the Evening Skies

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I can't tell you how disappointed I was the morning of November 11 to wake up and see all the clouds and read the weather forecast. Every day for a week or so before the predicted "Transit of Mercury", I had been checking the forecast hoping it would change for the better. Unfortunately, it ...

Be more like Chuck

Editorials

I begin with a personal story.A few weeks back, when the EPA (and White House) were messing around with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and the very lives of rural Iowans, I called the D.C. offices of Iowa Senator Charles Grassley. A very nice staffer took my question about what the Senator ...

Black Friday-now, black plates!

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What is it with black? Now, we have black license plates. I remember when the plates were black on white, then going to colorful license plates. I liked them.The business world enjoys "being in the black." As a kid, I drank "black cows."Blackened skies are not a good signneither are black ...

Medicare-For-All

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Letter to the Editor:Medicare-For-AllToo expensive? Not if we once again insure that corporations and the wealthy are actually paying taxes owed and also restore higher taxes upon both as was comparable in decades past. Whatever increase might come to the middle class will be more than made up ...

Make Small Business Saturday more than a one-time event

Editorials

November 30, 2019, is Small Business Saturday. Starting in 2010, American Express designated this day-the Saturday after Thanksgiving each year-to encourage people to "Shop Small." The financial services company reports that since the commemoration began, "Consumers have reported spending an ...

What’s Happening at the Wieting?

Local Columns

Since we are about to start the holidays I want to say thank you to everyone. May you enjoy your family and friends and have a wonderful fellowship with everyone.We of the Wieting Theatre Guild wish you all a big thank you for your support of the theatre."See ya at the Wieting_ _ _"