is not a date Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is likely to forget anytime soon. Some of the most iconic and biggest spending brands in American l…
An ivory tower. These are the words people used when referring to the Iowa West Foundation in a survey conducted by an outside vendor nearly a…
During the month of March and into April, basketball teams throughout the United States are cheered for winning league and conference champion…
While some jobs are down, traffic for pharmacy technician jobs has increased. The increased need for pharmacy technicians was apparent before …
Most of what we fear in life never becomes true. As children we were afraid of the shadows in our bedroom and that the Boogeyman would come an…
As I age and travel through my life, I find that time and experience are changing me.
Our nation is immersed in turmoil. Whether it’s racial issues, political fighting or a pandemic destroying our health and economy, we’ve never…
I feel as though this present life is a different life than we were living a few months ago. A lot of us don’t appear to be as self-centered, …
Watching the space launch on May 30 caused me to remember a column I had begun work on some time ago, and decided I wanted to get it launched.…
The events unfolding as I pen this column are an insult to the human spirit. The unnecessary and terrible death of a fellow human being at the…
I have written on this subject before, but as this current election cycle is beginning to heat up, I hope to pre-empt the anger and vitriol wi…
First, Jesus has called all of us not to be just churchgoers but to surrender our entire lives into His hands. If Jesus is not Lord of our liv…
Because I write weekly to champion the ways that optimism can positively impact our lives, I’m often challenged with questions about being opt…
As an extreme extrovert, quarantine is torture. An extrovert gains energy from being and communicating with others. Quarantine prohibits what …
Back in 2008, as a reporter during the many months of presidential campaigning, it was an educational experience, and at times enjoyable to co…
By now we should all be inured to the whiplash-inducing comments of President Donald Trump, who, as my father used to say, could screw up an i…
AP editor’s note: The following was submitted by Bob Ritz, MercyOne president and chief executive officer, on behalf of himself and the five M…
For years to come, pundits and historians will write about the wisdom, impact and results of this quarantine. Was it necessary? Was the result…
In July 1983, an anonymous letter appeared in an obscure newspaper in New Delhi claiming that the AIDS virus had been invented at Fort Detrick…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden came with none of the fanfare that accompanied Sen. Bernie Sanders' mov…
Now that Joe Biden is the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee, he must prepare for what previous nominees have called their "f…
It's too early to have anything close to a clear vision of the effect the COVID-19 pandemic will have on the 2020 presidential election, but r…
It’s easy to take some occupations and services for granted until something causes us to take notice and appreciate what they do. September 11…
One piece of conventional wisdom circulating in the wake of Bernie Sanders' withdrawal from the Democratic presidential primary is that the CO…
Even in a pandemic, some Republicans are looking to suppress the vote for partisan political advantage. But the biggest power plays may come i…
One of the things I’ve noticed in the past several years after moving back to my roots in the Midwest, and recently moving to a more rural are…
I awoke at 5:30 a.m., started a fire in our darkened kitchen fireplace and am sitting in the quiet of the morning, counting my blessings.
