rac·ist /rāsest/ adjective: characterized by or showing prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group, typically one that is a minority or marginalized. As Kevin Lewis insinuates a “fear of ...

Recently, I wrote to Representative Hinson urging her to vote no on an appropriations bill that would provide protection for chemical manufacturers like Bayer. I have lived in Iowa for the last 40 years and have raised my family here in a beautiful small town. However, two of my three family ...

August 22 is World Plant Milk Day — a perfect time to try something new and kind! Most people don’t know how cruel the dairy industry is to cows. Baby calves are taken from their mothers, and cows are forced to make milk until they can’t anymore. It’s sad and unfair. But the good ...

“It’s horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment,” Ansel Adams once said. Later, Bill Moyers clarified the problem being that the power of money trumps the power of democracy, meaning that a democratic form of government inevitably bends to the will of the ...

There is a story about a man who lived a long time ago. No one is alive today that we could know the truth of his words. But we don’t have to worry for Scripture says that this diety-God, cannot lie. Humans have been alive for 7000 years. Since man fell from the Garden, God has been active ...

To the editor, The reasoning behind an interview by Robert Maharry with Lonnie Hogeland is questionable. Filing for municipal office has not begun, Hogeland has not focused on a specific office and the scattershot remarks by Hogeland reveal an unfocused mind. His remarks are immature, mean ...