By CHUCK OFFENBURGER PERRY, Iowa, March 29, 2019 — Guess what presidential candidate was campaigning in west central Iowa on Friday? Oh, I guess the “Persist” cookies give it away. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the 69-year-old Oklahoma native who now serves Massachusetts, brought her “Dream Big, Fight Hard” campaign to La Poste reception hall in…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, March 12, 2019 — I was happy to see that “best books of 2018” lists are still floating around as “new news,” even now in mid-March, because I haven’t taken the opportunity to write my year end synopsis of what I read in 2018. This is always a fun column…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Feb. 1, 2019 — We’re only a month into 2019, and already at least 10 Democrats who are running for president of the U.S. in 2020, or are seriously considering it, have been campaigning in Iowa. Friday morning in Jefferson IA, we had perhaps the freshest thinker and most visionary…
By CARYL P. PRIVETT BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, March 7, 2019 — Reading the new book “Bending Toward Justice,” written by my friend U.S. Senator Doug Jones (D-Alabama), brings back so many memories for me. This book is focused on the last two trials of the perpetrators of the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church here…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, April 8, 2019 — If you are watching your calendar and following my cancer journey, you’ve probably been thinking that my most recent “90-day scan” has come and gone. And you’d be right. I had my regular 90-day scan and labwork done on March 15 and then met with my oncologist…