Opinion

Six weeks ago I wrote a column about changes that could improve Iowa’s law on open meetings.

That’s Chapter 21 of the Iowa Code.

Three weeks ago, I sat at the Sierra Community Theatre with a few fellow dads patiently awaiting the appearance of those immortal words, “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ...”

The word out of Des Moines is that the Iowa Legislature will make tax reform a priority in its 2018 session.

In the snowy white, diversity-free future Steve King envisions for Iowa — a blond-haired, milky-skinned paradise parade of pure-bred Caucasians — white women had better get pregnant early and often

Some stuff doesn’t make sense to me. I’ve puzzled out two or three items for several weeks now — in fact, some of them for several months. But they still don’t add up.

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley asked me to stay with him on a media conference call last Wednesday to talk after question time with other reporters around the state expired.

OK, I admit it.

I dread the holidays with every fiber of my being.

The magic has vanished and been replaced with gray hairs, stress and anxiety attacks.

The winter solstice is upon us, arriving in fact at 10:28 a.m. Central Standard Time today.