EditorI have watched, at least partially to the many vying for the Democrat Presidential nomination.  The first debate was too boring to watch to the end.

Dear Editor,  My spouse tells me that I have a pretty good memory but that I sometimesget the facts confused, but I thought I would give this a shot anyway.

In between fighting with my computer, thanks to some sort of virus or malware that I picked up, I try to write stories. This requires pictures. Because of the aforementioned computer issues, I can't get Google Chrome, the king of web browsers to work.

Editor:A rebuttal to a comment by Darrin Linsey.Spin – A+ Narrative A+ - substance F-How can you call Paul Manafort incarceration in Solitary Confinement a “fairy tale”?  You make it seem like it is a “walk in the Park”.

Dear Editor,As I was driving home in the evening this past weekend, I noticed a Benton County Conservation pickup coming into town near the fire station, with it's red and blue lights flashing.

Dear Editor, and the Iowa Delegation of the House of Reps.   Something strange is happening in the DOJ the FBI and CIA; Paul Manafort being moved to Rikers Island and placed in solitary confinement?  The worst of the worst are there – he doesn’t deserve that -- Jerome Corsi harassed by Mueller’s team until he is trapped into perjury?  George  Papadopoulos arrested by the FBI in a New York Airport placed in handcuffs and leg irons.

The only constant in life is change. I don't like change. I like things steady and sure, a bit mundane. A bit boring. I'm not so sure that I can say it's been that this year.

Dear Editor,Franklin Roosevelt prayer.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj2pXLZd2UI  The words of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dear Editor,I had another letter ready to send, another part of our experience with the City of Vinton, when we FINALLY found the definition of an "inoperable vehicle" in Vinton's Ordinances.

Dear 2019 graduates,I’m not sure if there’s anything that could be said that hasn’t already been said to graduating classes across the country as they prepare to leave the doors of their high school for the last time.