Opinion

Joe Biden is president, cause for optimism that things can only get better — albeit a low bar after what we have been through.

Editor’s note: I originally wrote the following as a Facebook post late Friday (Jan. 8) following the most tumultuous week in Washington, D.C., since the War of 1812.

“He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us ...”

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the smartest man I ever knew, Marathon farmer Jim Benson.

In this space last week I noted that Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s funding effort that helped create COVID-19 vaccines in a matter of months rather than years, was a bright spot

The scourge of COVID-19 still runs rampant as 2020 (boo!) morphs into 2021 (yay!).

I grew up undocumented in America. As a kid, I often saw little hope for the future in the country I considered home.

My dear wife, Linda, remembers well her mother’s tears and her father’s joy that cold day in 1955 she and her sister and brothers stood shivering outside Briggs Elementary in Maquoketa waiting thei