In case you live under a rock, the Winding Stairs Festival was this past weekend. It was wonderful. Seeing the community come together to celebrate Traer and more importantly, the 150th celebration was great. It is fun to see Second Street explode with current, former, and new community ...
“From April to September an average of ten wild plants per week come into first bloom. July 15, I eagerly watch for a prairie birthday.” –Aldo Leopold There is a narrow elevation along the north shore of Big Sissabagama Lake in northwest Wisconsin – home to a road of the same name ...
Dysart has a history of good baseball teams. They won the American Legion Junior State Championship in 1956. This is an impressive feat, but only a few years before this monumental win, they almost won the high school state championship. They did this by defeating teams from communities ...
Last Thursday, the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party hosted a roundtable in Dysart, Iowa to examine theft of U.S. agriculture technology. This is an important issue, and we applaud the members of this committee for taking the time to listen to farmers who have ...
Greetings, friends and neighbors! I hope you’re all enjoying your summer so far. It’s been a busy and fun month and a half since I last wrote, filled with town festivals, parades, the 4th of July, and hundreds of great conversations with constituents at their doors. Despite the rain ...
Next week the Iowa State Fair starts another year full of animals, 4-H projects, lots of interesting people, politicians, and the most important part, food. It is not a state fair unless there is pork chop on a stick or deep-fried Oreos. This means clogged arteries and full bellies. If one ...
In Iowa newspaper lore, it’s the headline that had to happen at some point. In 2007, Mason City Globe Gazette columnist Richard Johnson tried to find it and came up empty. He wrote, “like all good mysteries, [it] remains shrouded in the mists of time.” However, through modern research ...
“One who knows the Mississippi will promptly aver — not aloud, but to himself — that ten thousand river commissions, with the mines of the world at their back, cannot tame that lawless stream, cannot curb it or confine it, cannot say to it, Go here, or Go there, and make it obey...” ...
The question has been asked recently, “What is the normal climate?” The answer is that there is no normal climate. Earth’s climate is always changing. In the past when it was cold, you could walk across the Gulf of Mexico from Tampa, Florida, to New Orleans, Louisiana. At other times ...
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a lifelong farmer and senior member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, recently joined Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) to introduce a bipartisan bill to increase transparency and oversight of foreign investments in the American agricultural industry. The Farmland ...