They pitched a tent along the Linn Creek, they pitched their tent right by our front door and they tried to hang a hammock from our flag pole (rejected). Did you hear about the massive sleepover we held at the Y for several hundred people? Oh, you may have heard Marshalltown hosted the ...
There is something pretty incredible about seeing the baseball world descend on a small Iowa town of just several thousand residents. Today, the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies will take the field in Dyersville for the return of the MLB at Field of Dreams. For baseball fans, it’s ...
"The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness. ... They conferred against the Government the right to be let alone -- most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) The ...
Author's Note: Diana Newquist Parson is from Ottumwa. She and I have something in common: we both know first hand The Big C, although mine is in remission, while Diana's is still snapping and snarling, gnashing its teeth and playing its tricks. I invited her to write the following piece. Her books can be found on Amazon. This is an excerpt from my upcoming book: “Dusty Women.” As in “Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.” It’s a book about ordinary women facing death and handling death. While this section tries to capture what happened when I was diagnosed with uveal melanoma in my ...
Two very different topics are vying for my attention right now, so I’m going to write about both: the Iowa Data Center Decision Tool, developed at the University of Iowa, and the meeting of the Marshall County Supervisors that I attended on Wednesday morning. My website ...
Game shows have one virtue Iowa’s open-records enforcement system does not: Winners and losers know on the spot what prizes are theirs to keep. Hendrik Van Pelt learned this firsthand. In February, the Guttenberg man won a case before the Iowa Court of Appeals when the judges affirmed a ...
