By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Aug. 1, 2019 — It’s been an exhausting last few months for me – and cancer. I’m tired, folks. Don’t count me out, just count me tired. It’s been a whirlwind summer for sure. But before I give you the latest news, let me review what I’ve already done in…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 3, 2019 — It’s amazing what the first few days of July can do to the Iowa corn crop. Six days ago, on June 27, 10-year-old Natalie Towers walked with her little brother Noah to the edge of one of their grandfather Doug Lawton’s cornfields, and she was taller…
By PAUL KURTZ OMAHA, Nebraska, June 16, 2019 — My friend of long standing (I think 50-plus years qualifies as “long standing,” right?), Chuck Offenburger, has graciously invited me to report my thoughts as I follow our “VandyBoys” competing for the NCAA Division I baseball championship in the College World Series now underway here. To…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER SHENANDOAH, Iowa, May 22, 2019 — The biggest lesson of the Donald Trump presidency is surely this: A person who almost nobody thinks can be elected president of the United States can indeed win the highest office in the land. That is one of several reasons no one should be underestimating the candidacy…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER DES MOINES, Iowa, June 13, 2019 — If you’ve thought that U.S. policy toward our neighboring nation of Cuba couldn’t get much worse, you’re not thinking big enough. “Some people look at just Cuba,” said Rev. Luis Barrios, who’s been studying and traveling the region for more than 45 of his 66…