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Opinion

Ensuring ACCESS for Iowa’s small businesses

Local Columns

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy, comprising 99.9% of all American businesses and employing nearly half of our nation’s workforce. They produce 16.5 times more patents than large firms, delivering key modernizations and competition necessary for a healthy, cost-effective ...

Backs Fleener for sheriff

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I am writing this letter in support of Luke Fleener, who is running for re-election as the Webster County Sheriff. I have known Sheriff Fleener since 2007 when I began my employment with the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office. When Sheriff Fleener was a detective, I had the ...

UnityPoint Health continues to recruit needed doctors

Local Columns

As president of UnityPoint Health — Fort Dodge, I take immense responsibility in ensuring comprehensive healthcare services are available for everyone right here in Fort Dodge and our surrounding communities. Sharing the news of Iowa Heart’s termination of their agreement to provide 24/7 ...

Lowering the cost of childcare for our families

Local Columns

On my 36 County Tour, I have met with families, small business owners, and childcare providers who are rightfully concerned about the skyrocketing cost of childcare. As a father of four, I agree that we need real solutions to lower costs for our families, especially as inflation eats away at ...

Young Matt Bemrich’s first impression lasted a lifetime

Local Columns

Matt Bemrich was 3 years old when he met Albert Habhab in the Webster County Courthouse and that encounter left a first impression with the judge and former Fort Dodge mayor that lasted a lifetime. Back then, the youngster and his mother were visiting his grandmother Evelyn Hood, the ...

Terminating AI funding to our adversaries

Local Columns

Artificial intelligence was engineered to make our lives easier but poses the possibility of being twisted into menacing machines that wage war against mankind. At least, it’s a familiar plotline of futuristic fictional fantasies, like The Matrix and The Terminator, but the sci-fi scenario ...