By Joni Ernst - U.S. Senator
 

By Rev. Deb Mechler

By John Wills - Speaker Pro Tem

By Joni Ernst - U.S. Senator

By Chuck Grassley - U.S. Senator
 
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I wish to extend a sincere thank you to the Good Neighbor Fund and its generous local supporters for the 2021 grant awarded to Atlas of the Lakes Area. We are dependent upon such financial gifts and the support of individuals across the community to be able to provide assistance and mentoring help to area residents experiencing life crisis situations. We are truly grateful for community support for the ministry.
 
Dave Butterworth
Spirit Lake

By Seth Boyes - News Editor

The Janitor Problem — the false perception that, because a school building is clean and litter-free each morning, it collects neither dirt nor trash during any given day.

Don't bother typing the phrase into Google or dusting off that old copy of Webster's. You won't find it.

By Seth Boyes - News Editor

Consider for a moment two bills which were recently proposed in the Iowa legislature — one to stop private companies from using eminent domain, another to stop transgender individuals from playing girl's sports at Iowa schools. One became law last week. The other — the eminent domain bill — didn't make it farther than a subcommittee in the Iowa Senate before legislative support ran dry.

By Seth Boyes - News Editor

The bottle pictured with this column is likely unfamiliar to many of us these days, and there's a good reason for that. It once contained Syrup of Figs — or at least that's what the California Fig Syrup Company was peddling it as.

The now-not-so-well-known "medicine" was pretty pervasive in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was one of many products during that era advertised as a lickety-split cure for all kinds of ills.