For the past 3½ years, Donald Trump has claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. At last count, at least 70% of the nation’s Republicans say the same thing. The …
You may think that climate change is a hoax, or that it is something in the future, or it is not related to the gasoline we burn to rubberneck the flooding at Sioux Rapids or Cherokee, or with the way we farm and produce protein. Shriveled night crawler corpses baked on the Sunday morning pavement, roughly marking high flow from the night before raging down from Spencer through the Valley of the Little Sioux and choking off Cherokee. Stranded people in Rock Valley were rescued by boat and helicopter. It is real enough.
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is shrinking because of warming water and not because of less nitrate flowing in from the Mississippi River complex, according to two leading researchers. Dr. …
A longstanding complaint here is the utter incomprehensibility of federal milk pricing policy. For years we’ve joked (mostly through tears) that only four people in the world understand its …
For the past 3 1/2 years Donald Trump has claimed the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him. At last count, at least 70 percent of the nation’s Republicans say the same thing. …
In the next 10 days, the seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court will issue a ruling in the misnamed “Fetal Heartbeat” ban. This legislation is the third iteration forced through the Iowa …
Where to start. For how many years did Wilson set and not a sound was made about a roof repair? Then when the possibility reared its head that someone was actually interested in acquiring the …
Denying human rights President Joe Biden denies America’s best tradition and hopes, and forgets his own heritage, by severely restricting the ability of refugees to claim asylum in the United …
This week, we celebrate Flag Day. Seventy-five years ago, Congress designated Flag Day to commemorate the Second Continental Congress adopting the flag resolution during the American Revolution on …
The clothes we wore, like the crops we worked, marked the seasons on the dairy farm of my youth. Coveralls, for example, suggested winter while (ahem) “cover little” meant the hot, steamy …
The facts are as follows: Last Thursday a New York trial jury of five women and seven men unanimously convicted former President Donald Trump of falsifying business records regarding a hush money …
The nation is paying more attention to avian flu as it jumps from fowl to cows to humans. A third dairy worker in Michigan came down with the virus, reporting respiratory problems. This is of …
Several recent news items seem unrelated but have a common foundation, corporate greed. Red Lobster, in business since 1968, has filed for bankruptcy. While the company’s decline has been …
A New York jury offered a tonic to the American soul last week when it convicted Donald Trump of 34 felony charges for trying to cover up hush-money payments to a porn star immediately before the …
Most people go through life never stepping foot inside a courtroom. Most people, that is, except for attorneys, judges, journalists, the few of us chosen to be jurors, and an even more select group, …
The Biden Administration recently finalized a rule that would require nursing homes in America to have a minimum level of staff on duty at all times. As advocates for consumers in nursing homes …
One of the best things the Iowa Legislature did this year was appropriate $250,000 to study the state’s declining underground aquifers, starting with the Dakota Aquifer that underlies Northwest …
The Biden Administration’s trade agenda–mostly forgotten after three years of Covid, inflation, war in Ukraine, brutality in the Middle East, and a cantankerous Congress–recently surfaced and, …
According to a May 15 NBC News report, there are a multitude of issues that voters must discern about Biden, Trump and the independent presidential candidates before voting on Nov. 5. Logically, the …
Politicians do not appear to be serious about passing a new five-year farm bill before the November elections. The House Agriculture Committee controlled by Republicans last week on a 33-21 vote …