To the editor: I’m proud to endorse Beau Klaver for Iowa House District 55. Beau understands people. Especially Hamilton County people. He understands our communities, our values, and the day to day concerns of the constituents he’s asking to represent. District 55 needs someone willing ...
I’ve been catching some interesting videos online lately, and for me that is something. I don’t even like to sit for a movie, but these little videos are short. They are the ones where people are mowing and cleaning up lawns for abandoned properties and people who are not able to take ...
My grandfather, in referring to the weather, used to say, “Red in the morn; sailors take warn. Red at night, sailors’ delight.” I have heard others use terms and phrases like rule of thumb and peeping tom. When I hear these phrases I often wonder where, when and how they originated. ...
To the voters of House District 55: As a former State Representative, I rarely endorse candidates in a primary, but I have met Beau personally and I’m quite impressed with his candidacy. So I am endorsing Beau Klaver to fill the position that I once held in the June 2nd Republican ...
It’s graduation week. By Sunday night there will no longer be any high school seniors….they will be graduates of the high school they have attended for the past year. And they will be looking forward to their future. It’s a future that needs them desperately to step into some important ...
Some years ago I was given an insulated travel coffee cup by a firm with which we did business. It was a lovely cup — tall, slender, stainless-steel inside and out, nice rubber grip on the outside. A short time after I acquired the cup, I had an appointment in a town about 40-minutes away. ...