As I close out my first six weeks in my role as Marshalltown’s Park and Recreation Director, I am overwhelmed. The kindness, excitement, hope and sense of belonging I have felt here has far surpassed any new community I have joined throughout my career. At times, I catch myself still not ...
Summer census time is happening now for several common Iowa wildlife species. Roadside counts will soon get underway between Aug. 1-15. Spotlight surveys in the dark of night by conservation officers to locate deer are another means to help gauge those species. Citizen reports of pheasant ...
The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and dispenses it in the present; a regulatory structure that focuses more on redistributionism and top-down control than on innovation. But, we ...
Until last week, most of us had never heard of the data company Astronomer or its then CEO, Andy Byron. That was before he attended a Coldplay concert in Massachusetts on Wednesday with a woman later identified as the head of human resources at the company. The two were caught by the “kiss ...
My phone buzzed. It was Cindy. “What’s wrong?” she wanted to know. I was in the emergency room at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington. I had just been told I had bilateral pulmonary embolisms, i.e., blood clots in both lungs, lots of them. The physician assistant who told me ...
Earlier this summer, I attended my 30th high school reunion in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and the event was one of the most eye-opening experiences I’ve ever had in Iowa. After my classmates and I moved past the typical catchup about families, careers, and major life events, the conversation turned ...