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Can Deidre DeJear’s team, maybe even the Obamas, re-awaken the soul of Iowa?

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, July 18, 2022 — When Deidre DeJear accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for governor of Iowa at the state convention last month, she reminded the crowd that she came to this state 18 years ago “on a hope and a prayer.”  She’d been “a little girl from Mississippi,” African American,…

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July 18, 2022 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Admiral Michael Franken — best political candidate from Iowa since Leach and Vilsack

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, May 30, 2022 — When Michael Franken, the retired 3-star U.S. Navy admiral who is running for the U.S. Senate from Iowa, finished his presentation to a houseful of Greene County voters one evening last week, his host here Rick Morain told the old sailor, “I like the cut of…

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July 17, 2022 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Lawtons’ corn crop got started 2 weeks later than the ’21 bin-buster, but it still looks good!

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 4, 2022 — You want new understanding of why Iowa farmers are like they are? Talk to couple of them, like I did yesterday with my great neighbors and friends Doug Lawton, 67, and Karen Lawton, 64, ask the right questions, and you get reminded what they’ve been through in…

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July 4, 2022 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Father Andy Upah and Pastor Casey Pelzer get a “quality control” check-up by their old professor

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER DUBUQUE & CUMBERLAND, Iowa, April 16, 2022 — Nobody told me, when I was starting to teach college kids, that a couple of them might actually turn out to be pastors of churches. Oh, I would occasionally hear more seasoned faculty talk about how satisfying and fulfilling it can be in later years…

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April 16, 2022 in OFFENBLOGGER.

A requiem for one of the most humble yet most powerful persons in my life, monk Jim O’Connor

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER PEOSTA, Iowa, April 10, 2022 – Father Jim O’Connor, the best thinker and writer I’ve ever known, and for nearly 40 years my chief spiritual advisor, died in the wee hours Friday, April 8, at the age of 98. And I feel orphaned. Oh, I’m happy that Father Jim is happy, and…

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April 11, 2022 in OFFENBLOGGER.

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