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Opinion

Sam’s father had the right idea

Local Columns

In the early 1980s I attended a one-week newspaper advertising sales training program in Rochester, New York. I was an invited guest of Gannett Newspapers at a seminar conducted by Rochester Institute of Technology. The western-most delegate, I enjoyed getting acquainted with the other ...

Invest in your fishing

Local Columns

Buying stuff for fishing isn’t the best investment we could make from a strictly traditional definition of investing. Rarely can we sell a rod, reel, lure, or whatever for more than we paid for it. But some items that we should use when we go fishing are good examples of smart ...

Make Earth Day every day

Local Columns

Earth Day is next week. April 22 has been set aside as a day to honor the earth, clean up after winter, and spruce up where we live. With the weather this week warming up, it seems the right time. Some might argue that Earth Day should have been the day that the astronauts on Artemis II ...

My battle with quicksand; well, sort of

Local Columns

Everything I knew about quicksand was what I had learned from action programs on television. As a young boy I experienced it; well, at least I thought I did. This is my story. My father was a hardworking man, but every now and then he took an afternoon off to tend to some family ...

America at 250: A journey through time, told through our communities

Editorials

What began as an experiment in self-governance rooted in personal freedom and liberty has grown into the world’s most unique and important nation: the United States of America. Here, we can, within the boundaries of the law, do, say and think what we wish; we can worship as we choose; we have ...

Speed limit increase is a bad idea

Editorials

Iowa’s lawmakers appear to be on the verge of raising the speed limit on the state’s two-lane highways. We think it’s a terrible idea and call on them to reject it. The bill now before the legislature would establish the default speed limit at 60 mph rather than the current 55 mph. But ...