Commies in the cornfields?
Henry Wallace was our leading capitalist and socialist
Art Cullen’s Notebook
A view from rural America: immigration, agriculture, environment, politics
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Senate fails on farm bill again
Editorials from the Storm Lake Times Pilot, Aug. 14, 2026
Medicare for All is a winner
Josh Turek
Forgiveness amid the confusion of a fatality at Walmart
An elderly man from Alta died after a vehicle hit him while he was walking in the Walmart parking lot.
Dancing around the issue of our time
Rob Sand in Storm Lake.
Consolidation’s toll
A Storm Lake Times Pilot editorial
The microwave popped out of a bunch of refugees
German utopians at the Amana Colonies in Iowa would be deported today. They introduced the Amana RadarRange.
War on Iowa will extend past November
President Trump and the ayatollahs blew up any hopes of taming inflation with renewed bombing of Iran and the Persian Gulf, just as fuel prices were softening.
Our outrage could redeem us
$2 billion a year for Trump, we get manure in the river
This is our Day of Deliverance; we are not Summer Soldiers
“I am apt to believe that [Independence Day] will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival.
So awful a place that 2 million people show up to party
Two million Knicks fans reveled in lower Manhattan for a ticker-tape parade last Thursday morning as I skedaddled to LaGuardia for country roads to take me home.
Break up Big Meat
When they aren’t fixing prices they’re fixing wages
This old dog might catch the bumper
Clean water, healthy rural communities buoy Jones ag campaign
Feenstra learns lesson about showing up
Editorial, the Storm Lake Times Pilot, June 5, 2026
Sand feels strong heading into the campaign
Rob Sand called on Memorial Day as he drove home from a family weekend at Okoboji to catch up, he said, after having read my column about politicians swimming in money.
Who’s going to keep those money grubbers in front of you?
Rob Sand has $18 million cash on hand in his run for Iowa governor, but here is the crazy part: He’s a Democrat, and it is only May.
An editorial: Drinking us dry
A meatpacking town can’t afford the water
Iowa refuses to be someplace richer
Republicans yammer on the TV that you wouldn’t want to see Iowa become Minnesota, Illinois or California.
Josh Turek needs a coach
A Storm Lake Times Pilot Editorial
Reynolds is the worst governor in my lifetime
Not the worst ever