I wish there were influencers for the rest of us: We the imperfect. We the mediocre. We the normal. That’s what occurred to me lately as I watched famed influencer/actress/dieter Gwyneth Paltrow discuss what she eats (or, more accurately, doesn’t eat) in a typical day. In the video, ...

As the school year winds down, the award season ramps up – often, the spring semester is a time to celebrate the best and the brightest students that pass through our hallways. As we prepare for graduation in May, we also pause to celebrate the Phi Theta Kappa students in our midst. What is ...

With the most productive farmers and farmland in the world, Iowa is blessed to grow and raise significantly more than the 3 million people of our state can consume. Therefore, we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to help provide for consumers all over the planet. And Iowans can ...

Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, the Child Abuse Prevention Services of Marshall County, and the Hardin County Child Abuse Prevention Coalition recognize the importance of community-based support for all children and families during National Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month in April. The theme of ...

What’s wrong with us? Our nation’s moral compass, I mean. I don’t like being a downer, just focusing on wrongs, but some wrongs stand out as morally abominable, such as this one. It’s about hundreds of thousands of our low-income elders who, toward the end of life — when they’re ...

The 11th week of session has come and gone. Next week is the second legislative deadline known as the second funnel. By the end of next week, any bills currently being considered must be through the committee process in the opposite chamber of origination or they are out of consideration for ...