Golden Bears headed to state for first time ACKLEY — The Bishop Garrigan softball team is headed for the state tournament. The ninth-ranked Golden Bears plated a run in the first inning here Monday night, and it held up, as they bested No. 6 AGWSR, 1-0, in a Class 1A regional ...
The American middle class just got a lot richer. Joe Biden, who invariably and tiresomely refers to himself as “Middle-Class Joe,” made $15 million the first two years after the end of the Obama administration. This hardly qualifies as a rounding error in the portfolio of any billionaire mogul, but for the average American, a million here, a million there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. According to one estimate, it takes an annual income of $420,000 to be in the top 1 percent of earners. Biden made 26 times that in 2017. He used to be remarkable among top ...
Dear Annie: My mother very sadly passed away in January from cancer. She had a ring of my grandfather’s that was very special to her, and I wanted to have it because I knew how much it meant to her. My stepfather gave it to me. Now, last week, my grandmother (her mother) who has pretty much always made both my mother and me feel like second-class citizens in our family, called and asked me if I had the ring. I told her that I did. She went on to tell me basically that she never wanted my mother to have the ring. It was meant for my uncle but that she knew he wouldn’t wear it, so ...
Michael J. Pergande, 68, of Vincent, passed away Friday, July 12, 2019, at the Paula J. Baber Hospice Home. Private family services will be held at a later date. Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home is serving the family. Michael is survived by his wife Pam Pergande of Vincent, daughters ...
Three Fort Dodge businesses are participating in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. Cheryl O’Hern, of Spin Markket, Brian Pederson, of Blue Ribbon Pelham Waters, and Todd McCubbin, of Shiny Top Brewing, were selected for the program. The 10,000 Small Businesses program is an investment to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity by providing access to education, capital, and business support services. About 80 Iowa businesses were selected. Two groups of Cohorts spent 10 weeks in the program. Graduation will be held at the Iowa State Fair on ...
A man named Josef Buzhminski told this story at the trial of Adolf Eichmann. It happened on July 27, 1942, at the fence of the Jewish ghetto in Przemysl, Poland. Buzhminski was watching from hiding as an SS man named Kidash seized a Jewish woman and her 18-month-old son. “She held the baby in her arms,” Buzhminski said, “and began asking for mercy that she be shot first and leave the baby alive. “From behind the fence,” he continued, “there were Poles who raised their hands ready to catch the baby. She was about to hand the baby over to the Poles. He took the baby from ...
