The Fisher Foundation has decided to start selling pieces from the Fisher Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art collection. As a past director of the Central Iowa Art Association, I am saddened, disappointed and just plain sick to my stomach to their lack of foresight. For nearly eight ...
Ah, Halloween. My memory flies back to small town Monroe where I grew up. The local yokels (me included) loved to go about town tipping over outhouses, moving farm machinery to the town square, tee-peeing teachers’ houses, soaping windows and generally causing harmless mayhem. Any fireworks ...
If he can do it, I can say it. But why did he do it? You know why? The same reason your kids would — ridicule; mockery. A visible showing of contempt for a significant percentage of what we used to call your fellow Americans. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing it? I remember speaking at ...
As Medical Assistants Recognition Week shines a light on these essential healthcare professionals this October, it’s the perfect time to think about your own future in medicine. Are you drawn to a career helping people, but aren’t sure if the path to becoming a nurse or doctor is the ...
Few speak the truth as clearly and succinctly as House Speaker Mike Johnson. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday, co-host Jonathan Karl challenged the speaker’s calling the recent No King rallies “Hate America Rallies,” calling them “the modern Democratic ...
In 2021, I opened an independent bookstore in downtown Des Moines. My husband, also a small business owner, and I have had two children since moving back to Iowa in 2020 and we work full time running our businesses. Like many other small business owners and self-employed Iowans, our family ...