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Chief justice’s legacy to be honored

Editorial

Fairly and correctly administering the law was a form of public service that Mark Cady turned into his life’s work. Cady, the Fort Dodge man who was the chief justice of the Iowa Supreme Court when he died in November 2019, was a steady presence in courtrooms for nearly 40 years. He began his judicial career as a Webster County district associate court judge. He steadily moved up the ranks of the state’s judiciary, becoming a district court judge, judge of the Iowa Court of Appeals and justice of the Iowa Supreme Court. He became chief justice in 2010. During that time, he heard ...

Q&A: Things to Know About Your Healthcare Coverage

Local Columns

Q: When is Medicare’s open enrollment season? A: More than 700,000 Iowans are enrolled in Medicare for their healthcare coverage. From Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, Iowans have the opportunity to review and change their enrollment for the upcoming year in Prescription Drug plans (Part D), Medicare ...

It’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Editorial

Most people never experience domestic violence. Unfortunately, however, some estimates put the incidence among Americans at more than 12 million people each year. Women, men and children all can be victims. No socioeconomic or age group is spared. Researchers tell us, however, that young women between the ages of 18 and 34 are especially likely to experience domestic violence. Roughly one in four American women over the age of 18 become victims of abuse at some point during their lives. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Making people more cognizant of this problem and ...

Supports Wendy Larson for House

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: A few weeks ago, I wrote a letter to the editor on how you can’t call yourself a Christian and vote for the Democratic Party. This election cycle, there is a lot on the line including Christian values and morals. We must, as Christians, vote for the right candidate that will uphold those Christian values and Western civilization as we know it. That candidate is Wendy Larson who won a special election last December, and whom I am good friends with as well. She is a God-fearing Christian woman with humility, yet has integrity, and will vote her conscience and vote ...

Be part of area effort to support our troops overseas

Editorial

There are still thousands of American troops who are stationed not only far from home, but thousands of miles away from the United States. They are on the frontlines, protecting our rights and freedoms in a world that seems increasingly scary. An effort now underway will enable folks from northwest Iowa to send those soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardians and Marines a few comforts of home in the form of care packages that will arrive as the holiday season gears up. And people will be able to be a part of this effort without lugging anything to the post office. The troop care package ...

Wants Republicans to prevail in election

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: President Trump and Republicans have closed the border to illegal immigrants, reduced the amount of fentanyl coming across the border, reduced crime to historic lows, reduced the poverty rate to an all-time low, are against men competing in women’s sports, are against the mutilation of minors in the effort to change their gender, support the police and all law enforcement, created Trump Accounts providing $1,000 for children born between 2025 and 2028, arranged for the release of all the remaining Israelis held by Hamas, and passed that One Big Beautiful Bill in July ...