The house is kinda empty so the television is on a lot. It keeps my birds happy and chirping. Keeps me a bit distracted as well. But as I was working on this week's Beside the Point, a …
Get our your tennis shoes and knee braces and block off some time. We are in a health care crisis and the best advice may be to take the bull by the horns. In the last month, Blessing Health …
Lee Rood is an investigative reporter for the Des Moines Register and did a piece this week on expected increases in property assessments coming next year. The piece indicated that Polk County …
Blessing's closure of the hospital in Keokuk is really a matter of life and death. We can see the dramatics on full display as Lee County grapples with funding an additional full-time ambulance …
My daughter is a very worldly person. This past week she got on a train and headed to New London, Connecticut to watch "I know This Much is True," a live production with Mark Ruffalo. Mark is the …
Seeing the throngs of people at Rodeo Park on Thursday brought back memories of the annual cross country meet that was held there for years. Something was a bit special about Thursday's Timm Lamb …
I don't know what's more amazing, the number of people I know when I walk Avenue G during the Rodeo Parade... Or the number of people I don't. I live about three blocks from the parade route so …
I"m not a rich man, sometimes its a challenge just to remain a happy man. As we get older the philosophies of life - the aches and pains - death, all on occassion smack you right in the mouth, and …
I sat about a month ago with Mark Cartwright in the MPR room at Fort Madison High School.I saw a man tired... a retired veteran who spends most of his time at the high school athletic facilities …
I want to write about sports today. I really do. Fall sports are just days away from official practices. Anticipation is palpable for another HTC run at state volleyball, the next-man-in …
Surprise, surprise.Exxon reported record profit sales for the past quarter. According to CNN Exxon made $2,254 per second over the past quarter.That's per second.President Biden waived off recession …
I had planned on writing today's piece on a baseball player named Juan Soto who last week turned down $441 million to play baseball for the next 15 years in Washington. I just get around …
