Opinion
Iowa Donor Network Celebrates 25 years of Organ Donation: From a Donor Family
Almost 15 years ago. our family lost one of the best guys that I knew in the world, my father in law.
At the time we were still recovering from a couple of other losses in the same branch of the ...
Letter to the Editor: Speak Up for the Little Ones
Dear Editor,
For too long I have been silent on the topic of abortion. I consider and pray that our nation would value unborn lives, but I have felt a strong need to speak up and encourage others to...
Letter to the Editor: Benton County should follow Vinton with Broadband
Congrats!!!
To the City of Vinton and to the efforts by your publication in support of the affirmative vote on the broadband project. The determined effort over the past f...
If you build it, they will come: Broadband Project Vote Tonight
The VMEU Board will decide the fate of Vinton's Broadband project. at their meeting tonight, February 12th, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at City Hall. The Vinton Municipal Electric Utility will decide if ...
Tips for Laying a Military Member to Rest with Class
When the time comes to lay a veteran to rest, if you're like we were, you want the very best.One of the things we discovered is how to make a military funeral, be all that it can be.We've planned too ... Letter to the Editor: Free Stuff is not Free
Dear Editor – one more rant:
Kamala Harris and all the others wanna-bees for Dem nomination want and talk of Medicare for all.
I am on Medicare and have been since I turned 65.&...
Zero Degrees
I don't often get upset when people think I'm stupid. That's okay. As a matter of fact, I've gotten too good at acting like I don't know things. (there are so many directions I could go with just thos...
Letter to the Editor: Roe vs. Wade
Dear Editor,"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"46 years ago, our country passed a law that legalized the killing of babies.I don't care how old the baby is...
Off Roading down the Road
I love living in the country, I really do.
Except with it's icy.
Or when the snow is so deep that it's drifted higher than the minivan, which happened one year.
Or when it's m... When Life Isn't Normal
I like life to be boring.
Dull.
Mundane.
Occasionally a bit of excitement is alright if it's a good kind of excitement.
I like there to be a routine.
However, a few years ago all ...