To the editor: Iowa’s senior Senator, Chuck Grassley, is an embarrassment to Iowans who stand for honesty, who have a strong moral compass, who respect all people and who honor the Constitution. The man Grassley stood with on the stage in Des Moines, on Oct. 9, defiles all those standards ...

To the editor: When is the COVID-19 virus going to end? When the 67 million ignorant people get vaccinated? When they lose a child, wife, husband or best friend? So far 540 U.S. children have died and 720,000 people since it started. (Editor’s note: 734,000 deaths in the U.S. have been ...

On May 20, 1920, a new organization was started whose motto today is “Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.” This has been true in Fort Dodge for over a hundred years. Although COVID has delayed their ...

To the editor: I attended recently on Oct. 13, at the Heartland Museum in Clarion, the public informational meeting of Summit’s Carbon Solutions LLC, on the proposed carbon dioxide pipeline that plans to tap into the ethanol plants in the Midwest and capture initially half of the CO2 ...

To the editor: On behalf of the Iowa Bicycle Coalition, local bicyclists would like to thank state Sen. Tim Kraayenbrink and state Rep. Ann Meyer for their work advocating for safety on Iowa’s roads. Kraayenbrink has worked for years on the Senate Transportation subcommittee for the bill ...

To the editor: To voting citizens of Fort Dodge. I am writing to request you re-elect Lydia Schuur on Nov. 2. Lydia has served the citizens of Fort Dodge as councilwoman at large for the last four years. During those four years Lydia has fulfilled her campaign promises. Lydia got into ...