Two years ago, when catastrophic flooding hit Northwest Iowa late in the evening, our communities were devastated by tragic losses. Families lost their homes, businesses were forced to close their doors, schools suffered extensive damage, and critical infrastructure was overwhelmed. In ...

The United States nation faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans. Increasingly, two ideological movements -- one on the far left, one emerging on the populist right -- share a willingness to undermine the principles that have long defined the ...

Iowans are struggling through a mounting public health crisis, and the U.S. Supreme Court just took one of our tools to seek redress off the table. Bayer, the manufacturer of Roundup, couldn’t get their way at the Iowa statehouse or in Congress, so they went to our nation’s highest court to ...

In a previous article, we looked at the personal name of God in the Hebrew Old Testament “YHWH” or “Yahweh.” According to learnhebrewforchristians.com website, when the Hebrew Bible was read aloud in ancient Israel, every time readers encountered the four-letter name “YHWH” they ...

Pushing Cows With “Kill-Pen” Horses Yee Haw! I've never seen anything like it in Iowa. Ginnie and I and Ginnie's granddaughter, Aria, were invited to the Suzanne and Adam Lange farm (or ranch) north of Burlington to watch them move 200 head of Angus cattle from one pasture to another, ...

My sadly departed friend, Frank, was a unicorn. He lived 89 years in the town he grew up in, a village on the Connecticut shore. A reporter at his local newspaper for over half a century, he had turned down offers to work for more glamorous publications, among them Sports Illustrated and The ...