The news can be daunting. A warming climate is worsening acute droughts in Africa and Central America. Food security is tenuous. It is the source of horrible conflict in places like Sudan. Assistance …

Growing up in the 1950s, Evans family vacations seem typical by rural Midwest standards: car trips to the Ozarks, the Black Hills, Nauvoo and New Salem in Illinois, or St. Louis for a Cardinals …

Medicaid looks to be one of the big corks Congress hopes will help plug an estimated $4.7 trillion flood of red ink that accompanies tax cuts Republicans plan to pass this spring. They’re …

There are few comparisons — maybe none — in American history to what President Donald Trump proposes for takeover of Greenland by the United States. Trump refuses to rule out …

Not even the judges know for sure if the courts can hold up against a full-on assault over the next four years. They could use some fortification. Top law firms that once crossed The Donald are now …

  It takes courage to stand for the right course of action. It takes more courage to do something about it.   John F. Kennedy’s 1956 book “Profiles in …

As the president, governors and legislators elevate the stress and anxiety in higher education in the United States by seeking to change how colleges and universities operate and what they teach, the …

In the seven weeks that global markets and U.S. farmers have been living in the uncertain trade world of the Trump Administration, prices for most American ag exports have headed south faster than a …

In Iowa, over 700,000 individuals rely on Medicaid coverage for their long-term care and support needs, that includes individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. These are vital …

It makes us nervous when legislators commit themselves to historic property tax reform. If they knew what they were doing, the taxes on our humble offices would not be shooting through the tin roof. …

Of all the startling foreign adventures President Donald Trump has proposed in recent weeks, the American takeover of Gaza takes the prize as the most bizarre. Who does he think he is? More …

Uh-oh. Trump is hearing voices again. And the voices are telling him to do something truly stupid. As he puts it, “There is a lot of talk about the Postal Service being taken …

If it's Tuesday, the White House's long promised tariffs against Canada and Mexico are on again but if it's Thursday, they–well, many that its Big Biz backers don't want–are off again. …

On June 4, 2024, an op-ed I penned (Project 2025’s threat to democracy) was published in The Fulcrum, a national bipartisan social media platform. It received over 74,000 views and landed as …

Iowa farmers are about to plant into a seedbed of chaos. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada are on one day and off the next. Markets are whiplashed. Consumer confidence is tanking. Corn and soy prices …

The terms "DEI" and "Woke" are often floated these days with little thought given to their complexity, or what they mean to people of various minority classes, and those in the majority as well. …

One of the first marketing lessons offered to me, a wet-behind-the-ears ag editor, by a steely and successful ag futures trader was as simple and useful as a feed bucket. "Markets hate …

We’ve come full circle. The Storm Lake Times launched in 1990 as a weekly, and now we are back on that printing schedule after iterations as a daily and a twice-weekly. Dramatically rising …

The Trump Administration’s budget framework passed this week by the US House would have deep implications for Iowa in its bid to slash spending by $2 trillion while extending and enhancing tax …

You can kill house flies with a shotgun but that's best done outdoors and away from people. Of course, drawing a bead on the indoor pests outdoors defeats the purpose of going after the little …