Peaches

I’m sure many of you share the feelings I have about the current state of affairs in our country. Beyond the events themselves, more despairing is the fact that an approximate majority of our fellow citizens are happy with them. This is very difficult to reconcile with what I learned were the foundational principles of […]

A Misstep in the Wrong Direction

News on August 25 reported Sheriff Mike Naig unholstering his squirt gun yet again to apply a gentle mist onto the raging inferno that is Iowa’s water quality and overall environmental condition. This time it was $3 million from the state’s water quality initiative fund for a pilot project that would install buffer strips (i.e. […]

A Progressive Platform for Iowa Food and Agriculture

Secretary of Agriculture is one of seven executive offices Iowans see on their off-year voting ballot. The Iowa legislature created both the office and the Department of Agriculture (now IDALS) in 1923. It may seem curious that we have a statewide election for the administrator of a department that employs less than 2% of the […]