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I’m an Eastern Iowa writer, blessed to work as a columnist for The Gazette. This is my work archive, portfolio and sketch pad.
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2017 Progress Report
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Check here for a selection of my latest columns, blogs and other writings.
Affordable housing tour offers necessary spotlight
May 29, 2017
Work on a project for months, put your heart and soul into it and, even so, you’ll be hard-pressed to pick it out of the pack. This is the lesson lost to those who skipped the Cedar Rapids M 
CR Transit changes nearly here
May 28, 2017
Proposed changes to CR Transit passed their first public hearing hurdle this week.
The upcoming changes are a result of recommendations from the 2016 Corridor Metropolitan Planning Organi 
Iowa winnowing of health care begins
May 22, 2017
News that health care advocates had been dreading came Thursday: Planned Parenthood of the Heartland will shutter a third of it’s Iowa clinics.
Locations in Bettendorf, Sioux City, Burlin 
Keep it honest, take it personally
May 21, 2017
Dubuque letter writer Barbara Rank struck a chord, according to a Washington Post headline. I have another assessment: Rank took it personally.
Rank attended the Dubuque town hall event h... 
A Mother’s Day question: Do we really value moms?
May 15, 2017
This year many Iowans and Americans will splurge on Mother’s Day gifts.
Consumers told the National Retail Federation that their spending will be high — an average $186.39 per mom, which 
Oklahoma provides template for pipeline protest backlash
May 14, 2017
Dakota Access Pipeline protests have sparked changes to the Oklahoma criminal trespass code. The measures could become boilerplate bills for other jurisdictions.
The Oklahoma bill, signed... Maybe We Have Met Before?
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