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Opinion

Salutes hospice staff, volunteers

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: My heart was saddened when I heard that the Paula J. Baber Hospice Home is closing. I was the volunteer coordinator for UnityPoint Hospice volunteers from 2003-2022. A lot of our volunteers spend many hours in our wonderful Hospice Home helping our patients, their families and ...

Lincoln’s Law smells like a rose in 21st Century

Local Columns

Eight score and two years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the False Claims Act into federal law. The anti-fraud tool, enacted March 2, 1863, became known as Lincoln’s Law. Our 16th president embraced meatier measures to go after fraudsters bilking the U.S. Treasury during the Civil War. ...

Help celebrate National Ag Day

Editorial

As another growing season approaches, Tuesday has been set as National Ag Day by the Agriculture Council of America. The council designates the week it falls within as National Ag Week. One goal of National Ag Day is to recognize the contribution agriculture makes in the lives of all of us. ...

Iowa Senate tackles health care costs

Local Columns

Last Monday, the Iowa Senate passed Senate File 75, requiring a county that has the main campus of a Regent university in it to use districts to elect supervisors. This bill would provide a more accurate representation of the demographic that truly represents the area. The Iowa Senate passed ...

The power in giving back to your community

Local Columns

Throughout our lives, from childhood to adulthood, community is an essential part of everyday existence. Sometimes we don’t see or fully understand its impact, and sometimes we may think it is irrelevant. But for both rural towns and larger cities, community is vital in ways we can’t ...