Iowa and the nation lost a rare public servant last week. And Deba Leach lost her husband, Jim. Former Congressman Jim Leach was a moderate-to-liberal Republican representing Iowa’s eastern congressional [...]
This week, Paul Pate tried to clean up his mess. Iowa’s top election official insisted at a news conference on Wednesday it is the federal government’s fault that he ordered county [...]
We often hear that the reason for adopting the Constitution was to limit the powers of the national government. As a matter of historical accuracy, this is wrong. We already [...]
Back in the 1990s, I spent a lot of time in England because my then-boyfriend was a Brit. Of course I got used to things like saying “Sorry” instead of [...]
When I pulled up to the Harkin home in Cumming to interview Ruth Harkin, a wave of nostalgia washed over me. It’s where Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin grew up and [...]
I let down the front wall of the bluebird house, the gateway to the inside of the box, and saw four eggs – three blue and one white – in [...]
World Refugee Day is observed nationally on June 20 each year across the globe. It’s a day dedicated to raising awareness of the situation of refugees around the world. On [...]
Violet the Dog and I spent yesterday morning observing a controlled burn at Cedar Bluffs Natural Area. Chris Clingan, director of Mahaska County Conservation asked me to to tag along [...]
The No. 1 argument climate-change deniers use to “prove” that global warming is not happening is the fact that there have numerous examples of historically low winter temperatures in the [...]
Tomorrow is New Year’s Day, and football fans worldwide will gather to watch college football bowl games in homes, bars, and if they are lucky, in stadiums across the country. [...]
Someone asked me a few weeks ago who was the most interesting politician I had ever covered. After thinking a few moments, I said one of the most interesting was [...]
December brings the barrage of an inescapable seasonal ritual. Of course, I’m talking about the tendency for people—many perhaps too woozy on eggnog — to try to sum up the [...]
