On one of the first uncomfortably hot nights last month, I was awoken at 2 a.m. by an eerie thwap-thwap-thwap sound.
No matter what I write, it’s never going to be as widely read as the police blotter.
I learned that early on in my career.
I’m at peace with it.
The impressive groundbreaking ceremonies for the Wild Rose Jefferson casino/hotel/convention center complex at the north edge of Jefferson last Thursday afternoon drew some 250 area residents.
A little over 50 years ago, the United States embarked on a course of worldwide action from which we have not recovered, nor are we likely to anytime soon.
With all that bread-bagging of shoes and hog castrating on the farm, life for a young Joni Ernst surely didn’t afford a lot of time for leisurely television.
I don’t even like Eddie Money.
The United States is the world’s oldest modern nation.
More than 71 percent of the 600 inmates in Iowa’s lone prison for women did not commit a violent crime — and many are there for drug-related offenses.
I consider Facebook in much the same way I do public restrooms.
If someone were to ask me to sum up the Jefferson Matters: Main Street program in six words or less, I would quickly respond, “the difference is in the details.”