42 reflections
The coming baseball season — it can’t come soon enough after such a long and terrible winter — reminds me of the summer day in 1947 when three aspiring young [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in Guest Commentary
Posted March 05, 2014in Guest Commentary
Iowa governor: a job description
Charles Ruhl is a member of one of Iowa ‘s multi-generational aristocracies. His habitual crimes added up to stealing $1.3 million of his partners’ money. A federal judge in Scott [...]
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Posted February 05, 2014in Guest Commentary
Stop the presses! Des Moines Register column makes sense!
The Des Moines Register had quite a scary headline for Iowa Republicans the other day — over a Rekha Basu column: GOP’s lack of diversity could make it obsolete. But [...]
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Posted December 18, 2013in Guest Commentary
Corn stars
There are 30,000 cars packed in the parking lot, and cars are lined up for miles to get in. The weather is dicey, but the people have still dressed up [...]
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Posted December 04, 2013in Guest Commentary
Forget John 3:16; It’s all about Bob 7:14!
Say your prayers! According to a Des Moines Register news report, Robert Vander Plaats is soon into another resurrection as a religious right candidate for public office, rallying his troops [...]
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Posted November 27, 2013in Guest Commentary
A lesson and legacy left behind
Omega Ranch sits in Dallas County alongside County Road F-90, not more than a half-hour drive from downtown Des Moines. Acreages may dot the surrounding landscape, but Omega Ranch is [...]
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Posted November 06, 2013in Guest Commentary
A ‘Monty Python’ approach to governing Iowa
“The Buck Stops Here” — so said the sign that famously graced the Oval Office desk of President Harry S. Truman. If Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad had a similar placard [...]
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Posted October 16, 2013in Guest Commentary
AG Miller ‘sets the record straight’
I am responding to the editorial from the Storm Lake Times reprinted in Cityview (Guest View, Sept. 26). The editorial misrepresents a number of situations. Let me set the record [...]
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Posted October 09, 2013in Guest Commentary
Oh where, oh where has my watchdog gone?
Jubilation and consternation went hand-in-hand with the news of the settlement of Michael Gartner’s lawsuits against the Iowa Public Radio Board. He successfully sued the Board for two blatant violations [...]
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Branstad and Iowa, a sequel to film ‘Ground Hog Day’
The Iowa film industry — beset by tax-credit scandals a few years ago — can regroup and recoup in producing a sequel to the 1993 film, “Ground Hog Day.” Remember [...]
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