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• Vote: Will the economy continue to accelerate?

  Fri Jan 27, 2012
  • The economy will pick up when hiring and housing pick up.

• Housing ends year on strong note, but prices still falling

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • We just lost $250K on the sale of our house in NM. I don't think this represents a recovery!

• Home sales gain points to a nascent recovery

  Fri Jan 20, 2012
  • I can only speak for myself, but our house was on the market for two years with the original listing price just what we had put into the house.

• Passer-by shoots out window to help rescue children from icy river crash

  Mon Jan 2, 2012
  • Couldn't have said it better!

• Passer-by shoots out window to help rescue children from icy river crash

  Mon Jan 2, 2012
  • And who said that angels don't walk amongst us on this earth.

• Chief justice defends court's impartiality

  Sat Dec 31, 2011
  • Count me as one of them!

• Iowa voters hold sway over how president is chosen

  Thu Dec 29, 2011
  • Small states, who in no way represent the population of the United States, should not have the power to control who becomes the national candidate for the president of the United States. We definitely need a change in the way our political system operates.

• Bleakest outlook takes prize for forecasting

  Wed Dec 28, 2011
  • We stopped listening to the rah-rah cheerleaders several years back. Their views are like pushing on a string. It's time to wake up to the new reality that we have to live with, thanks to Republicans' misguided ideas.

• Iowa Republicans confident of 2012 victory, but still in search of a victor

  Wed Dec 14, 2011
  • One of the biggest problems that this country has is that small insignificant states hold so much power in the early voting in this country. Obviously, Iowa Republicans don't seem to be living in the real world that the rest of us live in.

• We are the median: Off to a good start

  Mon Dec 12, 2011
  • Unfortunately, I didn't practice what I learned from my parents. My children probably won't either.