By CHUCK OFFENBURGER DES MOINES, Iowa, June 15, 2016 — My fellow Vanderbilt University alumnus Andrew Maraniss, of Nashville, who has quickly become one of the best new sports authors working in the U.S., speaks Sunday late afternoon at the fourth “Wonder of Words” literary festival at the Western Gateway Park downtown in Iowa’s capital city. …
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, May 5, 2016 – The Republican Party here in Greene County apparently is not acknowledging that there is a GOP primary race for the 4th district seat in the U.S. Congress. In early April, Greene County Republicans held their annual “spring rally,” and incumbent U.S. Rep. Steve King was invited…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER This weekend of June 10-12 in our county seat town of Jefferson, Iowa, our annual Bell Tower Festival is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower. It made me think back to a column I wrote 30 years ago right now for the Des Moines Register, telling the story…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, April 9, 2016 – What happened to about 150 of us Monday night at the new Wild Rose Casino & Resort in our county seat town of Jefferson was so different, so fun and so inspiring, I felt like our imaginations might just explode our heads. Grow Greene County Gaming…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER BOONE, Iowa, March 25, 2016 –“This is my Father’s world,” the grand old hymn begins. Yes, it is His world, but we get to live in it. We need to help take care of it, too. That includes helping the Y Camp near here get new wooden plaques that, line by line,…