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Opinion

Our Veterans deserve the best!

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Every Veteran living at the Iowa Veterans Home (IVH) is my constituent. Many of the over 700 employees who serve these Veterans also live in my House District. My number one priority is to make sure we are fulling serving our Veterans as they have served us. Commandant Todd Jacobus sent a ...

Carol Remick’s Belted Galloways

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You might know, Carol’s husband, Joe, was gone, the temperatures outside were soaring, and Carol was home alone when her first three Belted Galloways (Belties) calved. She was excited, nervous and very unsure of her abilities in this situation. But she knew she had to assist them — somehow. ...

Unholy alliance

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Looking back over time, it becomes apparent that two man-made and inherently perverse Euro-American systems have long worked together to dominate and maintain control over populations. The first, Christianity, a spiritual belief system originally designed by males to keep power at the top one ...

Term limits

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Does this country need anymore evidence why we don't need anymore career politicians? We see first hand why we don't. They just can't give up the power. They thrive on control, and they don't want to give it up. Wake up people this country is going down a rat hole. We need term limits to get ...

Storm Lake has a complicated history with abortion

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Back in the good ol’ days, when everything was more wholesome, Storm Lake was an abortion center. Dr. James Alva Swallum was The City Beautiful’s most prominent physician, founding a hospital on the lakeshore with other local doctors called Swallum Hospital. It is now the site of ...

Breakdown in communication

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When I was 60 years old I got a computer. That was 28 years ago and I have not become a learned user. I am very good at turning it on and off. There are many technical things one can do to prevent others from stealing or deleting your material. I just plod along in absent-minded hope that no ...