Tough Pill to Swallow?
(03/19/10)
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Take control of driving habits
(03/19/10) Every 13 minutes, someone dies on America's roads, amounting to more than 40,000 deaths consistently each year. Traffic crashes are the leading killer of people ages 1-34, and the real calamity here is how complacent our nation has become about these very preventable tragedies...
Make spring cleaning a breeze
(03/18/10) Spring is just around the corner and experts advise tackling spring cleaning "inside jobs" one at a time to be ahead of the game when the temperatures rise. Start by making a list of each room in your home and then each task that needs to be completed in that room. Depending on the amount of time you have, select a job you know you'll be able to finish. This way, you'll feel rewarded as you complete each task...
Basic Biittner: Why George is George
(03/17/10) It's no secret that I am a life-long, die hard fan of the World Champion New York Yankees. And when I say "life-long," I'm not exaggerating by much. I will be 60 years old in a few months, and I've been a Yankee fan since I was five years old. The reasons that I became I Yankee fan, even though I grew up far from the Bronx, are quite simple...
Gray Matters: Reporting from Hawkeye country
(03/17/10) Now that I'm living in Cedar Rapids, I find myself deep in the heart of Hawkeye Country. The recent losses in both men's and women's basketball have made for some long faces. I'm still loyal to my alma mater, but I don't get quite so emotionally involved as some. Still, the connections do make for some interesting dinner conversations...
12 Steps to a Safe St. Patrick's Day
(03/17/10) In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division offers consumers 12-steps to a safe holiday. Specifically, for those revelers who plan to imbibe on the occasion, please consider the following whimsical suggestions: 1. There is nothing magical about green beer. It is just as intoxicating as beer that has not been dyed with food coloring...
Preparing for flood safety
(03/15/10) The forecast for probable spring flooding in the Midwest is likely accurate given all the snow we've received this brutal winter, and floodwaters are nothing to ignore or take lightly. Residents are asked to follow these safety tips if flooding occurs:...
'Sunshine Laws' vital to public
(03/12/10) Iowa's "Sunshine Laws" - the Open Meetings Law, and the Public Records Law (Iowa Code Chapters 21 and 22) - assure public access to open meetings and open records at all levels of government. This is expressly important as governmental bodies work to establish their next Fiscal Year budgets at this time of year...
At the Library
(03/11/10) Spring is almost here. Only nine more days. I don't know about you but I think everyone is ready for more sunshine and warmer temps. Dr. Seuss would like to thank all those who attended his birthday party @ the Cherokee Public Library March 2. It always makes a birthday special when one can share stories, games and fun with friends...
Newspaper advertising pays
(03/11/10) In tough economic times, many businesses make budget cuts just like the rest of us in an honest effort to trim expenditures to help the bottom line. At times, a business's advertising dollars are among those cuts, which can turn into a real Catch-22 because it's a proven fact that advertising products creates customers and brings people in the door...
Basic Biittner: O Canada, O My!
(03/11/10) Like many people, I spent some time watching the 2010 Winter Olympic Games on television recently, and I agree with the 41.7% of the respondents in a recent Chronicle Times poll who felt the Games were fantastic from start to finish. After starting out with the tragic death of the Russian luger and the failure to successfully light one of the legs of the Olympic torch at the Opening Ceremony, I was afraid that the 2010 Winter Olympics were going to be re-run of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, where everything seemed to go wrong, from the killing of the athletes and their captors on down to several unfortunate (though much less serious, in retrospect) events for the U.S. ...
Arbor Day trees great idea
(03/10/10) There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than by planting trees, and the Arbor Day Foundation is making it easy for people to participate. Everyone who joins the Arbor Day Foundation in March will receive 10 free white flowering dogwood trees. The free trees are part of the nonprofit Foundation's Trees for America campaign...
Gray Matters: Looking Forward To Spring
(03/10/10) I don't know about you, but I can scarcely wait for spring. Here, however, we don't want to wish too hard. If the spring thaw comes too rapidly there is a real threat of flooding and this area couldn't survive another of those disasters. For that reason I am turning my spring thoughts to the Texas Hill Country. ...
Winding Roads: Parents, communicate with your kids
(03/08/10) The other day I read in the paper about a 17 year old boy and a 13 year old girl caught having sex at 2:45 a.m. The article was drawing attention to this incident as whether it is an occurrence more of late or one that has been going on for years. I laid in bed thinking about this situation and wondered what was going wrong for things like this to happen and decided that one can not pin-point one incident...
Donors, beware!
(03/08/10) Iowans are known throughout the land as being understanding and receptive to their fellow man, to charities and to good causes. However, this warm humanitarianism is too often taken advantage of by outright scams that pocket charitable donations, or by professional fund-raisers that devour as much as 80-90 percent of the donations in "fund-raising expenses."...
Library News
(03/05/10) I am ready to write about how the snow is melting and spring is in the air but I'm afraid that might jinx the weather. I think all of us are tired of a long white winter. But at least it's March and despite what the weatherman may throw at us, the wait for green grass doesn't seem quite as long... |
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