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At Christmas I don't care what your religious beliefs are, or are not...or how devoutly or how passively you may follow them. I don't care if you think of Santa Claus or the Baby Jesus first when Dece...

Santa and the Baby Jesus Last week I told you about a dust up in my hometown of Toledo in Tama County. A bunch of out-of-town Scrooges blew the whistle on the nativity scene display on the front yard ...

From the In Box I get a lot of emails from folks who want us to put someone on the radio...this ranges from authors promoting a book, to folks from non-profit groups seeking some exposure. There's ano...

This Space for Rent We're in the home stretch before Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential precinct caucuses on January 15...less than four weeks. And the calendar is full with candidates and surrog...

Another Sign of Normal We keep looking for signs of things being back to normal after the COVID pandemic...which, hard to believe, started nearly four years ago. Here's another sign...radio listenersh...

Insights on Youth As technology has improved over the past half century, we've always presumed that it was the younger generation that was on top of all the changes...the ones who adopt the new techno...

Radio Heimlich You'll recall that earlier this month at a lunch gathering of Senate Republicans, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky successfully performed the Heimlich maneuver on Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, who la...

What's Legal and What's Right You've heard me note that I grew up in Toledo, a town of a couple thousand in Tama County...about 15 years ago, someone donated a large wooden nativity scene to be displa...

Read Any Good Books Lately?That was an old-time stereotypical conversation starter, as I understand it. And based on a new study, if someone in Iowa were to be asked that question today, the answer wo...

A Little Boost I was away from the studio last Wednesday to travel to Des Moines for a speaking engagement and meetings with supporters of Iowa Almanac and the Iowa Business Report. Meeting with folks...