For the second week in a row I'll be brief, and this week I'll let a picture be my editorial. In a visual communications class at Iowa State some 45 years ago, the late, great professor Rod Fox – … [Read more...]

My, what a week and it's only Saturday (April 20)! I'm packing for a week in downtown Chicago as my Iowa district's delegate to the triennial Rotary International Council on Legislation. For six days, … [Read more...]

By Bill Tubbs NSP Publisher It was not quite a year ago that I drove to Des Moines on Thursday, May 3, to join friends and colleagues from the Iowa Newspaper Association and others in the office … [Read more...]

Hats off to Dave Delvichio and all who are responsible for the timely cleanup of the rubble from the Jan. 17 fire that destroyed the former Eldridge Turner Hall, known as Del's. While it may have … [Read more...]

On one day, April 2, services were held for three gentlemen, all of whom were leaders in rural Scott County when I arrived here in 1971, and who continued their support of civic activities until the … [Read more...]

The publisher has been fighting a cold for almost two weeks, so this week's column is items from the notebook: Music: Here's food for thought for any school that is thinking about cutting its music … [Read more...]

(*) The words REFS STUNK were not mine. They were in huge letters across the top of page 1 of The Des Moines Register last Wednesday. But I agree, bad calls last week will live in infamy in ISU sports … [Read more...]

The sky will not fall, the sun will come up and life will go on after March 1 – IF you have a job and IF you are not a child in a Head Start Program whose funding is being cut, and IF ... The … [Read more...]