Opinion

Board members of the Grow Greene County Gaming Corp. enjoyed their second best day of the year last Friday.

Talk of paying farmers to suck carbon out of the air is gaining cachet in Iowa as presidential candidates hear tales of hardship wrought by years of wacky weather and tanking commodities markets.

A small caravan crossed the United States border last month, but this was not the kind of caravan that has been in the news for more than a year.

Iowa’s unemployment rate — the percentage of people looking for work who don’t have jobs — is currently 2.4 percent. 

Greene County’s jobless rate is even lower, at 2.2 percent.

Iowa is a rural state and its people have great pride in the bustling communities that dot our state.

Over the last year, President Trump has taken farmers on a roller coaster ride that’s finally gone off the rails.

The hot issue in American domestic politics 100 years ago this summer was women’s suffrage.

Editor’s note: U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, delivered these remarks June 4 on the floor of the Senate to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage.