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Following your gut

Dear Annie: I graduate from college in December (hopefully), and before then I have some important decisions to make about my future. I’ve been thinking about the outcomes for several months already, and the decision has not gotten any easier. I’ve been dating my boyfriend for well over a year now and we’ve talked about getting married in the future. We also plan on getting engaged in a couple months. While I have no doubt in my mind that’s what I want, it’s what comes after that I’m struggling with. My parents are very supportive and have paid for my college. In return, ...

Higgins seeks Ward 3 seat on FD council

Richard Higgins is seeking the Ward 3 seat on the Fort Dodge City Council. ‘‘I’m back,’’ he said, after filing his nominating petitions Thursday. ‘‘In fact, I have not wavered in my desire to serve the citizens of Fort Dodge by serving on your City Council, so it is my intention to run yet again.’’ Higgins has run for council twice previously. Ward 3 is the northeastern part of the city. It is now represented by Councilman Dave Flattery, who is seeking re-election. This year’s Ward 3 election will be a rematch of the 2013 race between Flattery and Higgins. ...

Drunken boss is the final nail

Dear Annie: My boss considers me a friend. A couple years ago at a work-related dinner, he badgered me about having children of my own. I was in a long-term committed relationship with a woman who refused to have children, something he was aware of from previous uncomfortable conversations. I had no interest in discussing this with him, especially with the professional company we had at the table. I mostly ignored him and eventually told him to stop talking about it. We didn’t discuss it again. Recently, I was at another work-related social event with my boss, and I brought the ...

Will Bibi’s war become America’s war?

President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predator drone, to avoid killing Iranians, may not want a U.S. war with Iran. But the same cannot be said of Bibi Netanyahu. Saturday, Israel launched a night attack on a village south of Damascus to abort what Israel claims was a plot by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force to fly “killer drones” into Israel, an act of war. Sunday, two Israeli drones crashed outside the media offices of Hezbollah in Beirut. Israel then attacked a base camp of the Popular Front for the Liberation ...

Flaky freshman friends

Dear Annie: I’m about to be a sophomore in college, and I am on summer break. I have not really talked to any of my friends from college since we have all been busy with internships and traveling. It makes me nervous that we will lose the connections we made throughout the school year. I have tried to talk to some of my friends through FaceTime, but we always seem to flake on the call. It makes me wonder if we were only friends because we were together 24/7 in school, and not because we have a true connection. I also notice that I connect and trust my friends back at home more ...

Democrats need a smarter nominating process

Is anything really wrong with Jay Inslee? Was John Hickenlooper not qualified to be president? And is Steve Bullock a weak candidate? The answers are no, no, no and for all three, “on the contrary.” Any of them could be a remarkably attractive Democratic nominee for president. In a general election, they might do better than the two firebrand senators trailing Joe Biden in the polls: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. But their campaigns never took off. Something in the Democrats’ nominating process isn’t working for their kind of candidacy. Inslee, governor of Washington ...