Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the 2024 floods. As such, I’ve been thinking about that community effort and how proud it makes me feel. A year prior, heavy rains had brought the Des Moines River to a near-decade high. The National Weather Service alerted us to the possibility ...
One year ago, catastrophic floods devastated communities across western Iowa. From Rock Valley, Correctionville, and Hawarden to Spencer, Sioux City, and Cherokee, countless towns faced unthinkable destruction and first responders bravely jumped into action. Homes, businesses, hospitals, ...
Q: How will the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill impact Iowans? A: Based on my county meetings, emails and phone calls, Iowans are paying close attention to the One Big Beautiful Bill moving through Congress. After passing the House of Representatives, the committees of ...
For the last four years, we saw our southern border turned into a glorified turnstile with a record flood of illegal immigrants and drug trafficking by murderous cartels. Iowans are unfortunately all too familiar with the dangers of open borders. In 2016, as Iowan Sarah Root drove home from ...
On June 4, FBI Director Kash Patel reported the arrest of a Chinese national who was allegedly caught smuggling a dangerous, potential biological weapon into the United States. According to the report, the Chinese national — Yunqing Jian — was traveling with samples of fusarium ...
In the comment section of last week’s piece, there were a few questions for me that were more focused on the city. Fixing roads, streetlights out, city council decision-making, etc. I get this a lot when talking with folks about what they’d like to see from the Board of Supervisors. To be ...