Opinion

The school year is finished, but whether we like it or not, Iowans have been sent to summer school this year.

This November, I will be a candidate for Greene County attorney. And against the advice of family and friends, I am running as a Libertarian.  

A vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, like everything else involving government today, is a bitterly divisive venue for another political battle.

Over the decades, as the rift between our national political right and left grew into a chasm, Republicans in states like Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska took total control of their state legislatures.

There’s an odd provision in the voter identification law approved last year by the Iowa Legislature and signed by Gov. Reynolds.

Back in 1976, in the era of collective American entertainment experience, we gathered as kids around the console TVs for what amounted to national viewings of primetime movies, big events, like Joh

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet ...”

So muses Juliet on her balcony in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.”

Hello to Jefferson and Greene County.

My name is John Patterson.

I hope some of you folks might remember me from way back in the late ’50s and early ’60s.