Perhaps T.S. Elliot was wrong. July, not April, is the cruelest month, at least for GOP presidential contenders trying to supplant Donald Trump. Before July, the campaigns have excuses for why the momentum hasn’t kicked in yet. They can say they’re just in exploratory-committee mode, or ...
Five years is a long time, and yet, for many of the residents who lived through the EF-3 tornado on July 19, 2018, it still feels like yesterday. They can still tell you where they were, what they were doing, the sounds they heard and the utter shock they felt as they gazed upon the wreckage ...
Dark clouds from the west boiling through clear blue sky, The sirens they blare, the people ask why? A raging tornado is blowin’ through town, Better run to the basement, folks, just keep your heads down. It sounds like a freight train as it rips up huge trees, It tears into houses, ...
The Hollywood screenwriters picketing studios since May know that having famous actors beside them brings more attention to their cause. And the media got real interested in their strike when they could write headlines like “Hollywood Stars Join the Writers’ Picket Line.” The reporters ...
I have enjoyed reading the articles about Marshalltown’s recovery from the tornado. After reading the article about the various additions of art to the community my friend and I took a walk to the Veterans Pocket Park on the East side of the Coliseum. We were expecting grass but we were so ...
One of the photographs of my father that I clearly remember appeared on the pages of the Bloomfield Democrat about 60 years ago. Pop was standing chest-deep in a hole that had been hastily dug in the street on the Bloomfield city square. His face was grim. There was urgent work to be done, ...