How unlucky and unfortunate my life has been. I was born and raised in a small rural town in Iowa named Vinton during the 40s and 50s.

From the Iowa Hospital Association Twenty advocates from all parts of Iowa met with the offices of Senators Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst to discuss the impact to Iowa hospitals that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and a similar Senate bill released Thursday will have on hospitals, patients and communities.

Sunday was Father's Day, I know it's old news now! Today would have been my dad's birthday if he were still here. The two holidays for me have kind of melded into one.

Dear Editor, After about 3 months of seeing the same 'eye grabbing' article on your website of "FAKE NEWS" I noticed, after Comey's testimony Thursday.

By Dean Close It only lasted a couple of seconds, and a decade or two ago, it would have never gotten the attention of anyone who was not involved. Maybe you heard about it: An unnamed employ of the New York Mets baseball team, one of the people who puts on the baseball-headed costume of the team's mascot, Mr.

Dear Editor, We Iowans need to invest in Iowa if we expect to get anything profitable and satisfying back. The 40 acres of the former Braille School now being offered by the State of Iowa to the City of Vinton for one dollar is enough to build an NFL football stadium with a retractable roof.

To the members of the Vinton-Shellsburg (and every other school, everywhere): "Congratulations! Today is your day!" No, wait. That is someone else's graduation speech, the best one ever written or shared during a commencement ceremony.

Editor: You in the "Resist"� movement, just what do you hope to accomplish? Do you want secure borders? Do you want MS-13 gang members jailed and then deported? Do you want ISIS defeated? Do you want pro- growth policies so that the working middle class can receive higher wages and more economic security? Do you want our military stronger and better trained? Do you want Sanctuary cities ended? Do you want drug dealers stopped at the border and imprisoned? Do you want the opiod epidemic ended? Do you want shootings in the inner cities to end? Your little red and green cardboard signs seem third grade to me.

To the Editor, John Stiegelmeyer wants to know why there is uproar about the hastily written and financially unscored Trumpcare bill. Seems like no one, including many Republicans do not like the bill that they rammed through the House.

Dear Editor: What is all the uproar over the House Passed health care act?? It's not law yet as it has to go to the Senate where it will undoubtedly be changed and if passed will go back to the House for reconciliation.