Starting next week on Aug. 4, I will start having regular office hours on Tuesday mornings from 8:30 until noon and Thursday afternoons from 1:00 until 4:30 at City Hall. Want to chat or have something bugging you? Stop in, no appointment needed. The railing on the Center Street has taken on ...
Throughout my tenure in Congress, I have been committed to ensuring Iowa’s veterans have the resources they need. The brave men and women who have selflessly worn our nation’s uniform have made extraordinary sacrifices for our freedom. While we can never fully repay them for their service, ...
What is the death count under Donald Trump? We're not talking about loss of life in his war with Iran. We're not talking about natural deaths by aging or unpreventable diseases. We mean Americans who die because they refuse safe vaccines that Trump or his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy ...
Everyone in my house is a sports fan, and so am I. Well kind of. I don’t get as emotionally invested as my husband or son. I think sports should be entertaining, not put you in a bad mood. My husband and son have preferred teams for most every sport, except soccer. We won’t go into that. We make sure to take our son to live games, which has solidified him as a fan for several teams. I must admit baseball was not one of my favorites. I find it a little boring. Then I saw a video online of a stoutly built ump breaking into dance. This led me to more videos of players in choreographed ...
The City Council held a meeting Monday night at which there was long and heated discussion about undoing the 4-month moratorium on data center projects before Planning & Zoning has had a chance to do their jobs. The attempt failed, thankfully, but I learned a great deal from the ...
President Trump's performance at last Friday's retooled White House Correspondents' Dinner made me nostalgic for the days of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon's media attack dog. In a speech, Agnew called politicians critical of Nixon administration policies "nattering nabobs ...
