Simplifying The Big Numbers In Government Spending
Back in my working days, back when I supervised The Des Moines Register’s business news staff, one of the columnists confessed to our readers that... Read more.
Congress Doesn’t Operate Like You And Me
If our households operated the way the United States does, members of our extended families would be planning an intervention to get us to see... Read more.
Wrong To Keep Muscatine Taxpayers In The Dark
One of the nastiest controversies in local government in Iowa in many years was the impeachment in May of Muscatine Mayor Diana Broderson by the... Read more.
President Trump’s Lack Of Empathy On Puerto Rico Risking Lives
When you look at the world around us — with its hatred and bitterness, with its disagreements and divisiveness — the quality most lacking today... Read more.
Don’t Let Foolishness Get Us Into Another War
A scab on the memories of lots of Americans was yanked off the other week with the airing of the first segments of Ken Burns’... Read more.
Equifax, Tell Us About Burdensome Regulations
The biggest under-reported news event from the past two weeks involves a crime of gigantic proportions that directly affects about half of the people living... Read more.
Iowa’s Problem With Openness And Public Records Law
When is Iowa going to catch up with the rest of the nation? Every week or two, another case makes headlines around the United States... Read more.
Iowa Is Abandoning Nursing Home Safety For Apple Handout
Where are our priorities, Iowa? Two news stories that grabbed the headlines in Iowa last week leave me shaking my head and asking, is this... Read more.
How “Job-Killing Regulations” That Trump Hates Actually Save Lives
Don’t come knocking on my door looking for support for the Trump administration’s latest effort to get rid of what the president likes to call... Read more.
Cedar Rapids Panhandling Ban A Solution To A Nonexistent Problem
The cost of sending kids to college has been climbing faster than people’s incomes. So a Michigan mother’s way of coping with that troubling trend... Read more.