Even before railroads began promoting Iowa’s Great Lakes region as a tourist destination in 1882, people from Des Moines traveled 200 miles by horse and wagon to hunt, fish and relax on the sandy beaches …
Caitlin Clark is a great distraction. At a time when many things seem to be going off the rails, the girl next door from West Des Moines has Iowans of all stripes cheering as she …
The first time I met Des Moines Register columnist and RAGBRAI founder Donald Kaul was Monday, June 14, 1971.
I was between journalism jobs, working on a construction crew, burying telephone cable near Williamsburg, Iowa, …
For more than a century, a massive, six-story building at 1800 Grand Ave. has marked the west end of downtown.
The building straddles the southwest corner of Grand Avenue’s iconic intersection with Fleur Drive and …
I noticed around sixth or seventh grade that I was having trouble seeing the blackboard.
Instead of telling anyone, I squinted until I discovered that pulling the skin around my eye socket would warp my …
In the early hours of June 28, 1924, a major storm passed through Des Moines. Most news reports called it a tornado. If it was, it was the only tornado in recorded history to ever …
Economist Jim Paulsen is no fan of high interest rates.
The titles of two recent Paulsen Perspectives newsletters say it all.
“10-Year Treasury Yield is Too High,” proclaims his June 5 newsletter. “The Federal Reserve …
The name Caitlin Clark has appeared so often in the Wall Street Journal this year that regular subscribers might be tempted to think of her as a new crypto currency or artificial intelligence product. Like …
In case you haven’t noticed, Iowa’s economy is struggling. We’re not in a recession, but things have been trending down for some time.
Farm commodity prices are sagging, and our minimum wage is among the …
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical “Hamilton” ends with these lines: “Who lives; who dies? Who tells your story?”
Most history is told from the viewpoint of winners.
I’ve become increasingly aware of this adage in recent …
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