A long time ago, when I first started writing this column, the weekly email to my publishing papers didn’t always include a photo. I figured that my 700 words or so were enough to amply describe the adventure in each week’s article or to lay out my ideas for better hunting or angling for ...
Our weather of late proves the truth of the axiom, “Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.” This past summer was hot and dry in our neck of the woods. Summertime conditions were so sizzling that an expectoration would evaporate before it could reach the ground. Thanks to ...
Our fearless leader (President Donald Trump) has supposedly pulled a rabbit out of his hat six weeks before the midterms, in which he is not running. He has aired some ridiculous ads attacking anyone left of the doorway, having spent some $920,000 taxpayer dollars in attempt to turn his past missteps into victories. All the while he is being supported by his own Supreme Court and every Republican in Congress. Please remember this. Release the Epstein files. Dennis Phelps Westbrook
Back in May, one of the Independent’s more loyal readers sent me an email request for this column. “A group of senior center (Adult Community Center) members visited the Atlantic Place for a tour and taste event. It would be of interest to others, I think, to learn more about the new ...
The plans of the Trump administration to remake American society were thwarted by Minnesota’s resistance to Trump’s Metro Surge invasion of the Twin Cities. That is the conclusion of the essay “Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot” by Peter Wehner and Jonathan Rauch. Wehner served in the Reagan and both Bush administrations. Let me summarize their observations. Before the failure of Metro Surge, Trump had made progress toward: running the federal government as “the leader’s personal property and family concern,” degrading “what is considered acceptable in American public ...
The official organization of Grandview township took place in August of 1873 at the first town meeting in the home of Jacob Thomas. The village of Grandview was founded in the spring of 1878 and the town site was plotted by the railroad on July 5, 1878. Grandview was the name chosen for the ...
