Iowa’s most popular deer hunting seasons are just around the corner, when roughly 100,000 hunters take to the timber for the long-awaited gun seasons. Iowa’s first gun season is Dec. 7-11. Second gun season is Dec. 14-22. Last year, hunters reported harvesting around 60,000 deer during ...
Out here on the farm, we know things can break down and go wrong. And when they do, we address it. We don’t ignore the problem and hope it goes away. We face the truth, fix the problem and move on. That’s how we live our lives. And that’s why I was upset when I heard the recent news ...
t the end of July, our national debt peaked at $35 trillion – a figure once considered unthinkable. However, just 118 days later, our country surpassed another sobering milestone – $36 trillion in debt. This rapid accumulation of debt threatens our economic security, weakens the value of ...
My fellow Iowans sent me to the Senate ten years ago to make the porkers squeal. It’s been a very lonely fight. Even in this era of political polarization, Democrats and Republicans always come together in agreement over one issue: living high off the hog. When faced with proposals to ...
“It’s like deja vu, all over again.” — Yogi Berra Over the past year, Toledo and Tama County have witnessed a troubling pattern of intolerance, but not from atheists or Satanists who have been unfairly scapegoated. Instead, the real source of this divisiveness has come from a handful ...
Identity theft is one of those crimes that most people don’t think about until they become a victim. Identity theft is one of the easiest crimes for offenders to get away with and one of the toughest crimes for the police to solve. Identity thieves quickly learn that stealing identities is ...