March 29, 2026 You know that nursery rhyme, MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY, HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? Well, historically mine has not had silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row! Last fall, as I was lifting the tomato cages off the dead plants, I vowed not to try a garden again. Weeds had engulfed the…
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We DO know
~Colleen O’Brien “You know that. And everybody knows that.” This is an oft-spoken collection of words from a president who in the wee hours of every morning Tweets or Xs lies about any number of things medical, military, historic, artistic. He’s a blabbering mouth and the sheer repletion of lies shuts our brains down. For four years of the Biden administration,…
Read MoreIowa’s high cancer rate linked to nitrate, pesticides, PFAS and radon, new report finds
~by Nina Elkadi for Sentient When Iowa resident Chris Henning was diagnosed with cancer in 2019, her youngest sister and brother-in-law had already died of cancer 13 years earlier and her father had been treated for lung cancer. Since her diagnosis, another one of her sisters died of cancer and two more women in her family have received cancer diagnoses.…
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