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Opinion

Making the world a healthier, happier place

Local Columns

At UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge, we are proud to recognize our amazing team and the incredible work of health care professionals across the country during Healthcare Worker Appreciation Week and Nurses Week. Every one of our team members play a vital role in ensuring the health and ...

Brushy Creek Area Honor Flight is back

Editorial

When a 737 roars into the sky above Fort Dodge Regional Airport just as the sun begins to brighten the horizon this morning, one of the most unique and heartfelt tributes to area veterans will be back in action. There will be about 130 veterans aboard that plane. They will be going to ...

Fort Dodge must address violence

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: We take The Messenger and are aware of all the bad choices made by many local young people that will ruin the whole rest of their young lives. It makes me so sad. Perhaps Fort Dodge could set up an office of some sort to counsel and set some of these young folks to a job path ...

Nurses remain dedicated to caring for all

Editorial

There is perhaps no profession that is so intertwined with an individual’s life as nursing is. Nurses are there to help bring new life into the world. They administer the vaccines, and help people get through all the various illnesses and injuries of a lifetime. And at the very end, nurses ...

It is time to stop the violence

Editorial

Fort Dodge has a problem. It is a deadly problem. The problem we are talking about is ongoing senseless violence that is taking the lives of too many young adults. That violence is also leaving others with physical scars that will last a lifetime, while the survivors of those whose lives ...