Igot called “Georgia” by one of my son’s friends the other day. I wasn’t insulted — I know from firsthand experience that kids nowadays have a startling familiarity with adults. My own son and his cousin, both 6 years old, once walked up to my husband’s 70-year-old uncle when ...

Born and raised in rural Iowa, expanding access to high-quality, affordable healthcare in our rural communities is personal for me. Regardless of zip code, our families, seniors, and veterans should not have to travel long distances or jump through headache-inducing hoops to get the care they ...

Eer had to be in two places at the exact same time? It sounds impossible, yet I’ve discovered a number of bureaucrats holding several different government jobs simultaneously. It may sound impressive, except this multitasking isn’t magic, folks, it’s fraud. A full-time Department of ...

Fifteen months ago, the people of Davenport got a step closer to greater transparency in the long-running controversy over the city’s decision to pay $1.9 million to three former employees to drop their harassment allegations. In a June 2024 opinion, a Scott County district judge said, over ...

Ginnie had been after me for some time to get new hearing aids. I put it off until after we could see some results from my cancer treatment. I can’t handle too many issues at once. Finally we could see light at the end of the tunnel, and it wasn’t a train. So I scheduled an appointment with ...

It was a week before Thanksgiving Day in 1963. I was halfway through my shift at the punch press at Waterloo Register. A manager came up to me on the assembly line and said, “JFK was shot.”  I was 30 years old, moonlighting at the furnace factory to make ends meet between my other ...