Aug 21, 2025 | Publisher's Column
Deadlines. We all have them. Some of us have more than others, but, yes, we all have them. Most of us learned about deadlines when we were in school. We had to finish a paper that was due by Monday or complete a class project by Wednesday or study for a test on...
Aug 18, 2025 | Publisher's Column
I am convinced that most of us, over time, can learn to do just about anything. Just about. I have several kryptonites, but one comes to mind each morning when I drive to work — washing my car windows. No matter how hard I try, I leave streaks. I try more solution....
Aug 14, 2025 | Publisher's Column
It was a late-1960s era Volkswagen Beetle, but this car was not owned by any hippie. Quite the contrary. This “Bug,” and several others like it, was owned by a farming family in Kossuth County where I was born and raised. Its orange paint was faded by the Iowa sun,...
Aug 12, 2025 | Publisher's Column
In searching through old newspapers recently, I found articles with spelling and grammatical errors. The writers of that day surely cringed when the publications came back from the printer and saw the errors. But what was done was done. Printed. Delivered. Read....
Aug 8, 2025 | Publisher's Column
I wrote a column a few years back about Tupperware containers and my ongoing frustration in matching the lids with the bowls. It’s still maddening. I finally realized at least part of my match-game problem. I can’t find the appropriate Tupperware counterparts because...
