30 June 2016

Want Comet soccer? Let’s talk next Wednesday at the College Grounds


I have this vision in my head. I’m sitting at a stand of the sort the Peanuts character Lucy sat at to deliver advice to Charlie Brown. On the fr...
23 June 2016

City Notes: Charles City continues to face water issues


By Charles City Mayor Jim Erb As we reach the beginning of summer, we continue to expand our community offerings.  As part of the Charles City Chall...
22 June 2016

Trump is no Ronald Reagan


By Kent Bush   |   publisher of Shawnee (Oklahoma) News-Star The number of people who are trying to equate Donald Trump’s political rise to Ro...
 

An alternative awaits CC baseball


This weekend, I walked the outfield of Nashua-Plainfield High School’s home baseball diamond. It was a little rutted here and there, which makes for...
21 June 2016

Unfiltered political press releases: Grassley, Ernst, Judge and Weaver


These are unedited bodies of news releases sent by politicians representing our area or candidates for those offices. Monday, June 20 From Sen. ...
20 June 2016

Iowans heed the call for pollinator habitat development


By John Whitaker, State Executive Director, Iowa Farm Service Agency In 2016, the Iowa Farm Service Agency (FSA), worked with Iowa farmers and land...
 
15 June 2016
Post-shooting politics put party above country

Post-shooting politics put party above country


Post-shooting politics put party above country By Chris Baldus  |  Managing Editor Much about the politics of the Orlando shooting is maddening,...
Lessons taught by my Father

Lessons taught by my Father


Lessons taught by my Father This is the week each year when we celebrate Father’s Day so, obviously, my Father is on my mind. He has been gone ...

Losing on battlefield, Islamic State takes victories where it can find them


Losing on battlefield, Islamic State takes victories where it can find them It took just a few hours for the Islamic State group’s opportunisti...
 
03 June 2016
Paul Simon: Still adventurous after all these years

Paul Simon: Still adventurous after all these years


Paul Simon: Still adventurous after all these years Look at the liner notes on Paul Simon’s new disc, “Stranger to Stranger,” and it seems ...