By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Oct. 12, 2019 — What a summer. Thank goodness for October. I’ve always thought October was the perfect month for rest and rejuvenation. The weather is nearly perfect and there’s still plenty of time not to think about the upcoming holiday season. I changed my life significantly at the end…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Sept. 23, 2019 — I’m pretty sure I saw an eventual president of the U.S. on Sunday afternoon at the historic railroad depot in Jefferson in west central Iowa. Julian Castro, the 45-year-old former mayor of San Antonio, former secretary of U.S. Housing & Urban Development, twin brother of U.S. Rep.…
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…