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 ...
This fall, Avi Schiffman, founder of the AI startup Friend.com, boasted on X about his company’s new advertising blitz, claiming it was the “Largest NYC subway campaign ever.” Since then, the large white billboards lining New York City’s train stations have not only sparked intense ...
President Trump recently followed through on his threat to use the federal government shutdown as an occasion to fire government workers on a mass scale. Shutdowns are temporary, yet the effects of this one seem likely to be permanent. It’s a kind of limbo, a foretaste of the old government ...
Beautiful, crisp falls days are some of my favorite things about Iowa! I hope that you’re able to enjoy this wonderful October weather. The remainder of the summer and the beginning of the fall has continued to be very busy. I’ve been taking advantage of educational opportunities and ...
My two boys recently got new passports. The little books are gorgeously designed. On thick paper, drawings are etched of wheat fields and farmers, statues and monuments. Quotes from great Americans - former Presidents George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, as well as the ...
If Democrats had succeeded and President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts were not passed on July 4th this year, families, farmers, and small businesses would have faced the largest tax increase in U.S. history. Over 210 million American taxpayers would have seen an average 22% tax hike, and ...