Election time is upon us again. If you are like my family, you may find many of the ads, flyers, and TV commercials to be unbelievably negative and false. This robs us of good candidates by making people who are considering running for office hesitate to do so. Excuses such as “Someone else ...
I hate mushrooms. Not that I hate their existence, but rather I hate consuming them – their texture, their smell, their flavor…even just the way they look on my food. I wish this were not true. I love the idea of foraging for wild edibles, but sadly eating a mushroom is about as ...
The macroeconomic numbers are good. America is near full employment. The stock market is doing well. Inflation is high, but down from where it was with former President Joe Biden. Americans do not care. They hate both parties. Republican operatives on the ground in state after state tell me ...
The concerns that I have heard concerning data centers are: power, water, noise, non-local ownership, and jobs. Power: Most of Marshalltown receives power from Alliant Energy, and a few get their power from Consumers Energy. Iowa has many other power generation facilities. All of these ...
History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and reminders that faith is not merely a set of propositions to be accepted but a way of life to be ...
Not all of them. Some influencers simply want to persuade and perhaps help others better their lives or their community. Their subject could be politics, economics, music, health or fashion. But social media has become inundated with influencers who harm their devotees, some on purpose. Or ...
