American history is replete with paradigm-shifting, landscape-altering, game-changing moments. Brown v. Board of Education is one of them. Little of what we knew or understood before May 17, 1…
It takes me about 10 minutes longer to read a magazine than it used to. Books, too. And newspapers with a lot of sections? I age just trying to get through one.
Ma and Pa Crumbly got 10 to 15 years for the death of four high school students, plus wounding six others, and possibly a seventh. Their shooter son got life.Will those sentences also include …
A few days ago a couple of friends and I were enjoying breakfast at Micky D’s Supper Club. We were covering several main topics such as the weather, sports, motorcycles and how wonderful our w…
In the agenda for the monthly meeting of the Hancock County Board for Tuesday, April 16, is an action item for approval of Connable Road Project Bid of W.L. Miller for $4,411,875.9 under (A).
Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, has a metropolitan population of 12 million people, with six-to-seven million motor bikes, and few-and-far-between traffic lights. You won’t s…
This is in reference to the letter to the editor from R, L. Diewold, published in the April 12 edition of The Daily Democrat.
I was pleased to learn an Australian company has received approval to sell cultivated quail meat in Singapore. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without sla…
The 2017 Women’s March was prompted by Trump’s policy positions and rhetoric, which were considered misogynistic and represented a threat to the rights of women. How right they were. It was at…
It’s been over a year now since a shooter made her way into a private Nashville school on Monday, March 27, 2023, and six victims lost their lives in an unthinkable tragedy.
I don’t know if your other senior readers will agree with us or not, but of the many benefits my wife and I have found in being senior citizens — merely taking an aspirin, ibuprofen, or Tyleno…
An adjudicated rapist, who was recently held liable by a jury for physically invading a woman’s bodily autonomy, has now taken it upon himself to opine about how government can control women’s…
We have to deal with people who can’t tell the truth from a lie, even when presented with documented evidence. That’s a huge problem. If you are going to keep believing things that aren’t true…
I don’t blame the public for not wanting to put the Republican Party back in power in Washington.
Explain the Proverb, “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.”
Recently, the Republicans in the Iowa legislature passed a bill which Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law that permits businesses in Iowa to discriminate against LGBTQ+ persons.
Someone said “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Former ambassador and recent Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has a similar problem with chaos —…
In the Daily Democrat of April 9th, along comes a breath of fresh air in the form of Ms. D. Smith from Fort Madison. It isn’t often there is a Trump supporter that gets in the Hawk Eye. This l…
This is A Tale of Three Leaders.
Ms. Smith wanted a letter written about Biden’s accomplishments. I’m happy to reply.
“Heaven is probably so stunning that it makes your eyes all watery. I also think heaven has everything you can dream of,” says Alison, 9.
We can pray for and trust in God’s protection.Psalm 46:1 tells us “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
The age of artificial intelligence has begun, and it brings plenty of new anxieties. A lot of effort and money are being devoted to ensuring that AI will do only what humans want. But what we …
This very minute, members of our legislature are trying to sneak in a new tax on forest lands. This bill has already passed the House, now it has to pass the Senate.
Leave it to the right to make a cheap attempt to capitalize off human tragedy.
I vividly remember the gruesome wreckage of the United States’ worst aviation disaster. I was among the first reporters to see the burning remnants of a DC-10 near O’Hare International Airport…
In this election season, our newsfeeds will be flooded with stories about the culture wars. In the 1980s, when I was growing up, these issues were shaped by what was then a new force in politi…
Lent is over – and I’m kind of sorry.
The Bible salesman deemed it a Christian gesture last week to retweet some MAGA moron’s depiction of the president of the United States trussed like a turkey in the back of a manly pickup truck.
Here are some things I have learned about America.
One of our town’s best kept secrets is the remarkable historic Grand Theatre. This magnificent structure has been standing for one year shy of 100.
Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Republican Legislature do not actually represent Iowans. Time and again they promote legislation and actions contrary to the wishes and needs of Iowans as shown in po…
Caitlin Clark is an American college basketball player for the Iowa Hawkeyes of the Big Ten Conference. She is the NCAA Division I (DI) all-time leading scorer and is regarded as one of the gr…
From the minute President Joe Biden selected her as his running mate, Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense scrutiny.
With President Joe Biden’s approval ratings lodged stubbornly on the minus side – some by as much as 30 percent – his re-election campaign team seems to be teetering in the verge of desperatio…
It’s craziness, downright craziness, this New America we live in, old norms tossed away with anything acceptable if, as one example, increasingly cockamamie Democrats can thereby eradicate Don…
In Nouriel Roubini’s book “MEGATHREATS – Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future and How to Survive Them,” he says that America is entering “stagflation,” which is slow economic growth wi…
I’ve had it! You’ve had it! We’ve all had it! Trump’s endless clapping, clomping, pugilistic fist pumps and pointless pointing to the brainless few with cellphones flashing. And so, “here come…
This week must have been especially rough for the people still living in the contaminated eastern Ohio town of East Palestine.
“I think heaven is at least one million times better than the best cruise in the world!” says Zachary, 9.
No problem is so big that we can’t run from it — or at least avoid thinking about it. That’s human nature.
It’s budget season in Washington, which means the politicians are delivering their annual warnings about the looming Social Security crisis. How big of a crisis — and how close it looms — is l…
What’s good about Good Friday? About everything.
Where oh where once more?
Every human being descends from Adam and Eve, so there is only one race of people.
With today being Good Friday I felt this would be the perfect time to write about one of the most beloved hymns of all time.
President Joe Biden recently gave a rough, tough, eyes-ablaze, here-I-come State of the Union speech that some saw as a definitive disposal of his democratically diagnosed mental vacuity. But …
“I think I would have my own room and not with my brother,” says Danielle, 7.
When you toss a rock into a body of still water it immediately disappears from your sight. The effects of that action, however, sends ripples of waves across the water’s surface, increasing in…
The historical significance of Women’s History Month should not be understated. It was born out of the need to acknowledge the often-overlooked achievements of women that have been integral to…
