His work as a medical researcher has been global and is credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives. He’s taught nearly 3,000 medical students. And his legacy of service to his fellow man will continue far into the future. So it was a proud moment for Fort Dodge native Thomas ...
Skywest Airlines Inc., which does business as United Express, is nearing a milestone in its relationship with the Fort Dodge area. On March 1, it will mark five years of flying to and from Fort Dodge Regional Airport, providing a service that enables travelers to make easy connections to cities all over the world served by United Airlines. All of us have a big role to play to make sure that service stays at Fort Dodge Regional Airport. To do that, local people need to make an effort to use that airline and the airport for all their flight needs. United Express is flying 50-seat ...
Disagreement gets a bad reputation. We tend to treat it as something to avoid or smooth over as quickly as possible. But disagreement itself isn’t the problem. How we handle it is. In community work, disagreement is unavoidable. People come to the table with different experiences, priorities, and pressures. That doesn’t mean everyone is acting in bad faith. More often, it means they’re seeing different parts of the same picture. I saw a good example of this recently during a budget discussion. A department head came forward with a clear and firm position about staff pay, rooted ...
There is one more professional football game to be played in the 2025-2026 season. There are few Americans who have not heard of this particular contest called the Super Bowl. The sporting event that will take place Sunday evening has essentially no equal. Sure, there are the Olympics, the World Series, the Stanley Cup finals and the NBA championships. The excitement of those events are all spread over a number of days. Sunday’s Super Bowl, however, will pack all the excitement into a few intense hours. The upcoming clash will pit the AFC champion New England Patriots against ...
For a long time, parents of young children in Fort Dodge and Webster County have faced a dilemma — how are their children going to be properly cared for while they are at work? It’s possible that some parents never find the answer to that question and end up staying out of the workforce. There are a number of very good local child care providers, but there just aren’t enough of them to meet the demand. All of the openings in their programs are filled as soon as they become available. That’s why it’s nice to see some scaffolding and stacks of building materials in front ...
Throughout 2025, we saw tremendous growth in our surgical services at UnityPoint Health — Fort Dodge. We are also making strong progress on the surgery renovation and expansion project. Much of the exterior work is now complete, and construction teams are focused on interior work to prepare the space for our teams to move in next spring. The construction team has begun working on basement framing, precast erection and the corridor steel erection in the addition. Within the renovation area, framing is approximately 85 percent completed. The team will next complete mechanical, ...
