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Monthly Archives: January 2017

A requiem for Bob Cox, “a brilliant scientist,” “world citizen” & my pal

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Nov. 30, 2016 – Bob Cox, my high school classmate, lifelong friend and something of a hero to me, has died.  He was one of the best and brightest that our hometown of Shenandoah, Iowa, ever produced. Let me tell you about Robert Earl Cox. There was a special bond…

January 20, 2017 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Why we worked so hard trying to re-elect our pal Guy Richardson

See the end of this story for a post-election update. By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Nov. 8, 2016 — One problem with small towns and small counties in rural Iowa, I’ve often observed, is that life can be so good out here that it’s too easy to start thinking small. That hasn’t been a problem…

January 19, 2017 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

POGGENSEE’S POSTCARDS: Churches for the Christmas cards of U.S. Congressman Steve King

IDA GROVE, Iowa, Jan. 10, 2017 — There are lots of big, loud, bad things that happen around us and command the attention of all of us.  Then every once in a while, you run across a small, quiet, good thing that’s been happening for years but it’s a complete surprise to you.  And when you figure out…

January 18, 2017 in Feature Photo.

“Baseball Whisperer,” great summer reading, on Clarinda IA story

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, July 6, 2016 — When an editor from the New York Times news bureau in Washington, D.C., spends four years interviewing, researching and writing a book on a baseball story in Iowa, you can pretty well figure it’s a story worth telling — and reading. “The Baseball Whisperer: A Small-Town…

January 6, 2017 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

POGGENSEE’S POSTCARDS: Winter views of old wood barns that are disappearing too fast in Iowa

IDA GROVE, Iowa, Jan. 3, 2017 — Photographer Don Poggensee, who lives here in northwest Iowa, decided he wanted to close out 2016 and start 2017 “with some iconic images of Iowa.”  He thought about it and decided on old wood barns. Why? “What could be more typical of rural Iowa?” he reasoned. And this…

January 5, 2017 in Feature Photo.

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