Towel SavingsOur local Wal-Mart was offering nice bath towels for $4, but the matching face towels were $3.50 and the wash clothes were $1.75. My solution was to buy three bath towels and cut one into four equal parts and further cut one quarter into two pieces. With a little simple sewing to ...

BySenator Charles GrassleyWASHINGTON Senator Chuck Grassley said that his amendment to allow an employer to verify the work status of all workers, not just new hires, through the E-verify program passed the Senate late tonight. The amendment was offered on the Department of Homeland Security ...

Barter BelieverI believe in the good old-fashioned barter system. I can trade a product or service of mine for another. In fact, I found a family member a gig fixing a laptop computer this week. He got paid and I received much needed computer repairs as a referral.RMHComing IndoorsI have ...

By Laura SnyderOne rule to live by is to never go into a grocery store without a list, because inevitably you will come out with everything except the one item you went in for. On the other hand, you might leave without anything except a bag of peanut m&m's because you forgot that you ...

BySenator Tom HarkinWASHINGTON, D.C. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) announced that the Sac and Fox Tribe, commonly known as the Meskwaki Tribe, in Tama County received $311,616 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) Program. These funds ...

(DES MOINES)-Rep. Dawn Pettengill (R-Mount Auburn) announced today that she will be joining Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey (R-Spirit Lake) during one of the Secretary's stops in eastern Iowa. Pettengill will join Northey at the Farm Bureau office in Vinton, 1105 W. 9th St.. on July 16, ...

By Senator Charles GrassleyQ: How does international trade benefit Iowa?A: International trade helps Iowans stretch their hard-earned dollars by creating a larger marketplace for competition, which leads to lower prices and more choices. Trade also helps Iowa manufacturers lower their input ...

By Laura SnyderTo all the childless women I have ever talked to about having children: I'm sorry.Why is it that when women who have children are in a room with childless women, we want to impart every horror we have ever encountered in child-rearing to the unsuspecting, wide-eyed novice?Most ...

I'll Volunteer!Go to theatres and offer to usher at stage productions in exchange for being able to see the shows. I've seen marvelous productions in my college city for free.Nancy from Statesboro, GAEasy ToiletryOrganizerWe have a small bathroom. I bought a shoe holder (with pockets) that ...

BySenator Tom HarkinThe American Dream LivesBy Senator Tom HarkinOn the wall of my Washington Senate office, I have two simple framed items. One is a postcard dated July 19, 1939, inviting my unemployed coalminer father to report for work with FDR's Works Progress Administration. The other is ...