Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous

Challenge accepted. “Learning these facts has been my job for over half my life. Much to my family’s dismay, I never missed a historic marker,” said Rundlett.

Reminder: Dig up all those Casey’s pizza box tops you can find, because this weekend they’re going away forever. (Story: KCCI.) Here’s my collection, which also shows a clip of the multiple changes in boxes over the past five years … Continue reading →

Look at what WHO’s Erin Kiernan was wearing Monday. Now look at what KCRG’s Beth Malicki was wearing Monday. Unfortunately, I can’t embed this one. No criticism here at all, just noticing an amazing coincidence. (Yes, I routinely watch two different … Continue reading →

August 19, 2019: This is not a Kmart in Iowa; this is the one in International Falls, Minnesota, that was in the nationwide round of Kmart closures announced in September and closed Dec. 16. It will be the last Kmart … Continue reading →

Waukee learned their staff was putting way too many resources into helping students decorate their Valentine’s Day trinkets. The school district also realized there was a growing number of families in their community that didn’t celebrate the holiday. I didn’t … Continue reading →

The depopulation of rural Iowa is now a problem for the National Guard. In the adjutant general’s “Condition of the Guard” message to the Iowa Legislature earlier this month, he said: “I can’t continue to have quality infrastructure where I’m pouring … Continue reading →

After the 2018 midterms I wrote: So, barring surprises, in 2020 Iowa will have Republican women in three top positions — Reynolds, Ernst, and Speaker of the House Linda Upmeyer — and Democratic women in two more, Axne and Finkenauer. Well, … Continue reading →

April 4, 2006: This view of the stately Hardin County Courthouse in Eldora now needs a notice at the top of the steps: Please use side door. The Iowa Falls Times-Citizen (two paragraphs, anyway) and KLMJ/KQCR Radio report that starting last … Continue reading →

Or possibly the Reinbeck lawyer, Abby Wessel, wrote for the November 2019 issue of the Iowa Lawyer magazine: Reinbeck is a small but prosperous town situated upon what is arguably the best farmland in the state. Mike offered me a … Continue reading →