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Opinion

We have a choice: Weapons and war, or food and health care?

Columnists

For weeks, Congress has been wrapped up in passing President Trump’s big, brutal budget — the one that pays for tax cuts for the wealthy and a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget by taking food stamps and Medicaid away from people struggling to get by. The GOP-controlled House of ...

Uncle Virgil

Columnists

One of my first memories of Uncle Virgil was when my mother took me to see him and Auntie Florence on their farm between Nevada and Maxwell, Iowa. It was spring and, as we neared, we could see Uncle Virgil cultivating corn in a roadside field. My mother stopped the Buick and let me out. I ...

June 15 is World Elder Abuse Day

Your View

June 15, 2025 is World Elder Abuse Day. Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging joins communities across the world to promote awareness and highlight solutions to this systemic social challenge. As Americans, we believe in justice for all, but we fail to adhere to this value when we allow older ...

Fiction from Lewis and Ginter

Your View

Instead of responding to points made in my May 9th letter with facts, Lewis and Ginter respond with attitude May 13th and May 14th respectively. As to Lewis’s fiction, I did not gather signatures at Walmart. However, since I initiated the petition, I apologized to the manager for it. ...

Musk’s deadliest legacy

Columnists

Elon Musk has left the White House, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. But of all the actions Musk and President Trump set in motion before their recent rupture, nothing will hurt more people around the world than their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...