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Opinion

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!

Local Columns

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

Local Columns

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_ _ _"

Nation celebrates its 399th annual feast

Editorials

In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims - early settlers of Plymouth Colony - held a three-day feast to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Many regard this event as the nation's first Thanksgiving.The Wampanoag Indians in attendance played a key role but historians have recorded harvest ceremonies of ...

D.A. on the impeachment

Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor:Watching the impeachment of Donald Trump. The people that are testifying against Trump are people working in his administration. That says it all. With friends like that who needs enemies?Dennis A. BendaToledo

Happy Thanksgiving To You

Local Columns

Since my next column won't arrive until probably after Thanksgiving, today's column is dedicated to this special day and a few of the things I am thankful for. Now of course, we're all thankful for family, friends, freedom, our spouses, children, grandchildren and all of that but here are a ...

Thanks-giving!

Local Columns

My wife loves to go to tremendous work to make our family Thanksgiving Days memorable. She decorates our home, fixes trimmings, grocery shops and sets the table perfectly! In the end, it's memorableuntil her turkey carver enters with his dull meat-cutting knife he's been meaning to ...

The New York Times: Why Almost Nobody Will Defend the Iowa Caucuses

Editorials

As leading Democrats fight for ballot access, voting rights and diverse representation, their marquee presidential contest is hard to participate in and takes place in a state that is 90 percent white.So there you go. The east coast noses are up and snooty again. Oh why, oh why would anyone let ...