Over the past decade since my fellow Iowans sent me to Washington to make the big spenders squeal, I’ve been exposing waste, fraud, and abuse almost too insane to believe. This week, I was proud to see some of that work deliver a win for Iowa taxpayers. Both the Senate and House passed the ...
When we think of storytelling, we often picture something ordinary — a moment shared across a kitchen table or a memory told beside a campfire. But those small moments carry great power. Storytelling helps us build bridges between communities, preserve culture, share traditions, invite ...
Anyone who attended high school probably remembers their world history teacher talking about countries that militarized their law enforcement to make what is referred to as a police state. Examples taught should have included SS members of Nazi Germany (1925-1945), the secret police — NKVD ...
Ginnie and I support the arts, like the sky supports lightning, or the earth life. We have four main local artists we collect, and many of lesser quantity, not talent. We only have so much space on our cathedral walls. Whenever we go to an art reception, which is often, Ginnie’s wags her ...
Florida executed a man this week and is scheduled to put another to death this month, setting a modern-day record for the state and underscoring an unsettling trend for the nation. Michael Bell was executed by lethal injection on July 15 for killing two people in 1993. Gov. Ron DeSantis also ...
Can you hear the canary in the economy’s coal mine singing her heart out? You know that we are headed for trouble when some masses start buying groceries on the installment plan. That is the business model behind the popular “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) borrowing platforms — loans ...