In today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette I mention that Linda Ferguson found ”Kilroy was here” graffiti behind a wall at her flood damaged northwest Cedar Rapids home.
I’ve always liked this little guy and knew that he evolved during World War II. But, I never really knew the story behind him.
If there’s anywhere to find out, it [...]
A handful of people have weighed in about my column in today’s Gazette about receiving a FEMA check for damage to my basement after my sump pump failed. They have called me names, said I have no right to accept such a check and tell me to give it to people who really need it.
I’m [...]
Two weeks ago today Cedar Rapids received more than an inch of rain, the Cedar River rushed to its crest of more than 31 feet and the word “flood” took on new meaning for 25,000 people evacuated from their homes.
After I returned to work the following Monday after a week of vacation, I ran out [...]
With the recent comparison of the 2008 flood in Cedar Rapids and the 1997 flood in Grand Forks, ND, I can’t resist running this Ramblin’ column I wrote for the April 29, 1997, Gazette. It ran with the headline “Cedar’s serenity a welcome contrast to raging Red River”
The Cedar River is a whisper to the Red River’s [...]
If it hasn’t been high winds, it seems to be high waters that are plaguing Iowans this year. Certainly a spring for the ages, bringing back memories of tornadoes that hit Oelwein and Charles City 40 years ago and the floods that swept through river communities 15 years ago.
Having been been to Charles City after [...]
The Dewey Decimators of the Coralville Public Library, featured in today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette, may not have an original name but they were certainly original by featuring numbers from the Dewey Decimal System on the backs of their softball team T-shirts. The numbers coincide with the wearer’s favorite reading topic. Other Dewey Decimators [...]
While chatting with Blair Frank of Bertram about his Peace Garden, featured in today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette, he said something about graduating from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion.
Ah, hah. That’s where I graduated, in 1975. Blair earned a degree in biology in 1973. Since each of us finished college in four straight years, that means [...]
Four West Branch buddies will be among the 400,000 spectators at the Indianapolis 500 automobile race Sunday. They’re reliving their youth, with three of them, David “Vid” Johnson, James “Boo” (now “Butch” 
Pederson, and Jeff “Whitey” Lathrop having gone in 1968 and a fourth, Glenn “Hink” Hinkhouse, joining them in 1969. (See today’s Ramblin’ column in The Gazette.)
I’m [...]
You can search the Internet for all kinds of cell phone tricks, which seems an appropriate topic today since my Ramblin’ column in The Gazette dispells the popular e-mail that proclaims “5 Things You Never Knew Your Cell Phone Could Do” thanks to an article at Snopes.com
Fox News has a story about seven tricks you can [...]
Whenever you get a new boss, you always wonder what’s coming. Not necessarily because you think he may be a monster or the enemy, but because he’s an unknown.
So Steve Buttry, who becomes Editor of The Gazette in June, stopped by the office Monday to have a look around, say hello and field some questions. [...]
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