More results...
A recent newsletter by economist James Paulsen about the changing value of the U.S. dollar got me thinking about how a weaker dollar could offset some of the damage the new trade wars are inflicting …
A new one-act play uses the immigrant ancestors of Steve King to expose the Iowa congressman’s xenophobia. While King’s lack of empathy is well-documented, the play by twin sisters Allison and Margaret Engel views the …
On July 7, the day before Bob Ray died, the Wall Street Journal ran an article that reminded me of how Ray became Iowa’s most transformative governor. The headline was “Don’t Simply Dive Into Action: …
We had to put down Teeny, our 23-year-old feral cat, the other day. She’d been with us since her mother showed up carrying three kittens across our backyard in 1995. The mother was a black …
Here are several interesting things I learned about Herbert Hoover from Kenneth Whyte’s 2017 biography, “Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times.” Hoover, who was born Aug. 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa, caught the …
“This is what Des Moines needs,” said a familiar voice in an unfamiliar place. I was in New York City walking the High Line — Manhattan’s elevated, linear park — when my old friend …
The Grant Wood exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York connects with history in ways I had not expected.
Wood, of course, is the iconic Iowa artist who painted “American Gothic” …
Mike Lipsman has taken an informed look at Iowa’s new tax law and concluded that, while the changes are more reduction than reform, the door remains open for a “do-over” that could be groundbreaking. To …
Two years ago, an estimated 50 million U.S. citizens cast absentee ballots, voted early or used other nontraditional voting methods, according to the Pew Research Center. That’s more than one-third of the 130 million votes …
Economist James Paulsen used a term recently that I have not heard for many years: stagflation. He mentioned it in a May 14 newsletter that includes investment tips for clients of Minneapolis-based Leuthold Group. I’ll …
Get Our Email Newsletter
