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 ...

The Supreme Court begins its new term this October. This happens every year. But this year is different. We live in a very different country than the one that existed a year ago. During Donald Trump’s second term, his administration and allies have been using the force of government to ...

In my last op-ed (Best and worst U.S. presidential cabinets), 15 different research-based sources revealed that Donald Trump’s 2017-2021 and current cabinets are among the worst in U.S. history. The last paragraph of the op-ed stated: “Let’s face reality. A cabinet that ranks historically ...