Imagine punishing your kid for telling the truth by taking away their allowance years later. It makes no sense, but that’s the logic behind an assertion by Kraig Paulsen, the Director of the Iowa Department of Management (DOM), that failing to reissue the FY2020 Statewide Single Audit puts ...
Marshalltown is gearing up to welcome thousands of riders and visitors as an official RAGBRAI overnight host, and community volunteers are needed to help make the experience unforgettable. Hosting one of Iowa's most celebrated events is a community-wide effort, and volunteers play a vital ...
I understand the immense effort required to run a business—long hours, complex supply chains, and personal sacrifices for employees and children. That’s why the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is partnering with you to ensure your hard work leads to lasting stability, supporting ...
Buried words, like buried treasures, sometimes surprise and enrich. But buried landmines only create problems now, and later. Such is the case with a passage buried in a 71-page Iowa Supreme Court decision last month. In a unanimous ruling, the court decided that a law authorizing Iowa ...
Every December, as we count down the final minutes of another year, millions of Americans make heartfelt promises to themselves and to those they love that this will be the year things finally change. This is the year we'll lose the weight, write the book, run the marathon, start the business, ...
Green Junction Though we frequently reference the droughts, storms, fires, floods and other weather challenges our commodity producers face, we seldom look at evidence that our weather is likely to get worse if we don't reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. A story shared with me by Dr.Julie Peller, a chemistry professor at Valparaiso University, alerts us to one such problem: We recently had the privilege of viewing the coast of Alaska and witnessing a glacier and its evident decline in size. Dawes Glacier, near Juneau, is an awesome site. The international assembly of people on the ...
