Friends, Yesterday, the Iowa House’s new Higher Education committee passed a bill to prohibit the regent institutions in Iowa from requiring students to enroll in courses related to DEI or critical race theory. The bill does not eliminate the existence of some of these courses. And there ...

Each spring brings about the possibility of flooding in Iowa. Damage caused by flooding is often a standard exclusion in homeowner, renter, and property insurance policies. In most flood-prone areas, flood insurance coverage has traditionally been available through the Federal Emergency ...

Like thieves in the night, Groundhogs were our enemy when growing up on the Maple Hill farm west of Monroe. Those little pigs dug tunnels around the foundations of farm buildings and made quite a mess. Dad and I stood on the porch across the road with my single-shot .22, and picked them off as ...

Hugo Balta, executive editor of The Fulcrum, whose social media platform exhibits highly factual and credible ratings from Media Bias/Fact Check, wrote in his Jan. 25 op-ed “now is the time to advance on DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] initiatives” as opposed to President Trump and ...

By BECKY BROWN and DEB WILLIAMS Most people know someone that saves everything or has too much stuff for their living space. They may have so much clutter that there is no place to sit down or there is only a path to get through their house. People don’t generally talk about this, they just ...

I heard from fellow Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement members up in Worth County their Board of Supervisors recently passed an ordinance that enacts common-sense protections from hazardous liquid pipelines. That’s the eleventh county to pass an ordinance pushing back against Summit’s ...