When I was in college, one of the part-time jobs I had was working for Terrible Terrance Tree Service. Terrance’s full-time job was working for the college in building and grounds, mostly as a tree trimmer. This was in the days when the elms were dying from Dutch Elm Disease and, since the ...
Tax policy experts and lawmakers have long circled 2025 as a year to prepare for. What makes it so significant? For one thing, Federal COVID money to states is expiring, straining state budgets at the same time the economy is starting to weaken. For another, Republicans in Congress are ...
Just since Dec. 1, 2024 we have received 662 letters asking for money. Some were willing to accept $ 6,500 if we would send it. Those nauseating pleas arrive, two hands full a day. Everybody has a cause and they want us to be a part of it, at least the giving part. It appears to be one big ...
Ecclesiastes 3:11 God has placed eternity in the hearts of humankind. Eternity is a long time, it is something we should want to get right. Author Todd Hampton said you are living in the story of the Bible right now. We are living in the in-between of the beginning and the end of the Bible. ...
Aconstitutional showdown taking shape in southern Iowa’s Decatur County could put taxpayers on the hook financially to defend the county’s efforts to silence a critic of public officials there. The Institute for Justice, a national nonprofit law firm, wrote Decatur County Attorney Alan ...
One of the first orders of business for each new Congress is securing committee assignments. Lawmakers are assigned to committees to divide up the work. This allows members to dive into policy areas and conduct the people’s business, from the budget to taxes, health care, agriculture and ...