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Opinion

Help celebrate National Ag Day

Editorial

As another growing season approaches, Tuesday has been set as National Ag Day by the Agriculture Council of America. The council designates the week it falls within as National Ag Week. One goal of National Ag Day is to recognize the contribution agriculture makes in the lives of all of us. ...

Summing up work on appropriations, education

Local Columns

Last week ended the second legislative funnel. If a bill sent to either chamber has not made it through a committee, it is dead, unless it is an Appropriation bill or a Ways and Means bill. There are still ways to move priority legislation that hasn’t passed the opposite chamber, generally by ...

Area residents must take advantage of air service

Editorial

Skywest Airlines Inc., doing business as United Express, will continue providing flights between Fort Dodge and Chicago through March 31, 2027. That welcome news is courtesy of a new federal Essential Air Service contract that was recently awarded to Skywest Airlines by the U.S. Department of ...

Wants Congress to address PBM reform

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: My father opened Daniel Pharmacy back in the 1960s, and I’m proud to be a second-generation pharmacist who’s served his community for decades. Over the years, however, working with insurers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) has become an increasingly challenging ...

House bill addresses labeling of meat

Local Columns

Week 10 has ended here at the State House. We have one month left, four weeks. It is hard to believe we are already halfway through March! Next Tuesday, the 19th, will mark the first day of spring, and those of us that depend on farming for our livelihood have begun to watch the calendar and ...

Living liver donor story sets example of compassion

Editorial

Can you imagine giving a big chunk of one of your vital internal organs to a complete stranger? The mere thought of it probably makes a lot of people queasy. But one local woman did just that in a stunning and heart warming example of compassion for another human being. Kristen Hovey, of ...