Hate never solves anything
Some of the nicest people I’ve known have been police officers from county to state to city cops. I have some dear friends who wear badges and they are good people. [...]
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Posted May 28, 2020in Guest Commentary
Posted May 18, 2020in Guest Commentary
Today’s heroes represent the diverse fabric of our country
Every crisis has new heroes. During the 9/11 attacks, they were the first responders running into burning and crumbling buildings as others ran out. Now, during the Coronavirus pandemic, the [...]
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Posted January 01, 2020in Guest Commentary
Sales taxes should fund classroom needs before stadiums
The Des Moines school district is sitting on a $100 million building fund. Iowa school districts cannot use sales tax dollars to pay instructors or professionals to assist with discipline [...]
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Posted November 08, 2019in Guest Commentary
Are community papers akin to a circus?
There’s times when producing a community paper can seem like being in a circus. One moment you are the acrobat balancing your way across a high wire and the next [...]
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Posted October 17, 2019in Guest Commentary
Traditional network stations don’t usually report their lower viewership.
I’m amazed at how the traditional, over-the-air, television networks consistently report that “newspapers are dead.” Their anchors report that story time and again, but never report their own losses in [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Guest Commentary
7 Christmas wishes for Iowa’s children
In writing out my Christmas wishes for Iowa’s children, I thought I would focus on what gifts we Iowans can offer to our kids — what I wish for our [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Guest Commentary
Close calls
CITYVIEW magazine asked its Facebook readers: “Is North Korea the ‘biggest threat to humankind’?” Nov. 9, 1979, 2 a.m.: In the depths of the Strategic Air Command’s underground bunker in [...]
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Posted September 06, 2017in Guest Commentary
An elegy for the Fourth and Court parking lot
These days as I drive east into the downtown area, I marvel at how fast the new Kum & Go headquarters is coming together. I give a mental hello to [...]
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Posted August 18, 2017in Guest Commentary
48 hour film project
Three-dozen hobbyist filmmakers compete in the 13th annual 48 Hour Film Project, a hurried competition to write, film and complete a short film. It took 15 years for James Cameron’s [...]
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George Floyd, Protestor Violence – how to solve all this
The death of George Floyd at the hands of police should never have happened. It was murder and a dark moment in America. The looting, terrorism and burning of American cities by [...]
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