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The North Tama Redhawks swept Belle Plaine in a regional semifinal volleyball match Monday. Wednesday’s game to go to state will be against River Valley of Correctionville at Webster City. To prevent four ranked Iowa Star Conference teams from devouring … Continue reading →

I’m aware that more things are happening than I’m writing about. I’m also in the middle of a seven-week span where at least one of my days off is occupied by something lasting multiple hours. In the case of last … Continue reading →

Due to sleeping until noon a lot time constraints and events, I didn’t get this Substack story from August in here earlier.

I, as they say, “nothing” the comic book character Deadpool. I’ve never had interest in the gratuitous, uh, everything about him. But movie reviewer Katie Walsh says this about “Deadpool and Wolverine” … It’s a unique script, composed almost exclusively … Continue reading →

The Associated Press needs someone to copy-edit its news alerts, especially on weekends. That should be “formerly incarcerated” not “formally incarcerated.” If anyone is being informally incarcerated something strange is going on. (note: the author’s work schedule has always included … Continue reading →

June 10, 2024: The padding and backboards in the Goldfield gym date to before 2007, based on family video archives. The Goldfield school will be torn down starting next month. I got wind of this through an alumna of Goldfield … Continue reading →

The lovely Loess Hills are the next part of my 2015 circumnavigation of Iowa.

In my most recent Substack, I look into how the Lansing Black Hawk Bridge’s closure is a far different situation than the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge’s collapse. I wrote it because I expected there to be stories about national … Continue reading →

Deep in the March 19 Associated Press story “Pedal coast-to-coast without using a road? New program helps connect trails across the US,” we find this: “Without the infrastructure bill, we wouldn’t be having these conversations,” Paprocki said. “We’d be fighting … Continue reading →

In my latest column, I look with dismay at yet another presidential election matchup between candidates born in the 1940s. The only one since 1992 that didn’t include at least one was 2008 (McCain, a Silent, vs. Obama, a young … Continue reading →