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Opinion

Reality check on climate alarmists

Local Columns

Q: How is the Trump administration working to restore sanity to climate policies? A: In the previous Congress, I served as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. The budget committee’s top job is drafting and enforcing the annual budget resolution that provides a public framework ...

Thankful for North 15th Street input, decision

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: We want to thank all the Fort Dodge residents who helped get signatures and who signed the petition to encourage the Fort Dodge City Council to vote against the proposal to reconfigure North 15th Street from the Village Inn intersection to the Kwik Star intersection (20th Avenue ...

Nothing compares to Iowa State Fair

Editorial

The time for eating all kinds of food on a stick while gazing at a cow sculpted in butter has arrived. Yes, we are talking about the Iowa State Fair, which begins Thursday and continues through Aug. 17. It may well be the grandest of our nation’s state agricultural festivals. Iowans ...

Questions direction of our country

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I have lived in the Fort Dodge, Iowa, area all my life. Also raised with ethics and values. I see how our free speech is being attacked in this day and age. How people are calling each other names and if you don’t think as they do, we treat them pathetically. My faith is ...

Lots of unanswered questions need answering

Local Columns

One of the frustrations of being a **former** newspaper editor is no longer having a few dozen reporters to pursue answers to questions going unasked and unanswered each day. Two of my go-to questions were “why” and “why not.” And my favorite open-ended query to a newsmaker was ...

Community Health Center and Upper Des Moines Opportunity team up

Editorial

If it seems like it gets dark just a tiny bit earlier every night, that is because it probably does. As the days get just a bit shorter and the nights get just a bit cooler, that means summer is winding down. And as summer winds down, that means one thing for local kids — school will soon ...