Opinion
Ask before you Act
Dear Editor,
The gull of some people. I will never understand why it is some people don't have respect for others.
I had a tree topped off this past Fri. morning. Before I got home from...
Thanks from Jr. Journalist Katie Langstraat
Thank you everyone for the support towards my time as a Junior Journalist. My goal is to write more stories and take more pictures during the summer including my own babysitting blog type story st...
Time for new leadership in Iowa
It is time for fresh, new leadership in Iowa - and Rod Roberts is the right man for the job. For nearly a decade, I have worked in the Iowa House of Representatives, and have seen firsthand t...
Is our education important?
As a blind or visually impaired Iowan, I am bothered by the actions taken in the past decades to reduce the quality of education being offered to the blind and visually impaired children of this st...
Is the education of Iowa's visually impaired no longer important?
As a blind or visually impaired Iowan, I am bothered by the actions taken in the past decades to reduce the quality of education being offered to the blind and visually impaired children of this st...
More graduation advice for 2010 seniors — and the rest of us
The best graduation speech any one could deliver is to read Dr. Seuss's "Oh the Places You'll Go."
Everything else, including this column, is second-best.
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Two guys, several places and the answer to one question
Two guys once spent a couple of years together, in a big brick building between the courthouse, police station, and post office of a county seat in Iowa.
Then one of the guys left and ended up ...
As I tiptoe through the....what's that??!!!
A few days ago we got the press release from the local PD asking everyone to make sure the yards are kept clean and tidy.
I laughed. I remembered. And I laughed harder.
When I was a kid, we...
The Norman Rockwell kind of pride in Vinton
"We were humbled," wrote a colleague last week, by the tremendous response to Vinton Today that has already required us to increase the size of our server.
I hate to disagree with a c...
Class of 2010 making the news in eastern Iowa
Dear Editor,
This news was reported betweeen 5:30-6:30 a.m. on WMT this morning with compliments to the Class of 2010. I add my admiration for understanding the meaning of self-sacrifice in dee...