State park trail entry point.

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ACA

  • Blogging the ACA

    When I had my first colonoscopy there was no President Obama, no Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, I hadn’t begun blogging, and I was on my employer’s health insurance plan. The company I worked for would have liked nothing better than to present a cash payment to employees in lieu of paying their 65… Read more

  • No Winter January

    We had a brief, light snowfall this month, and that’s it. With four days left in January, it seems unlikely winter as we know it will come. We have had the scenic vistas, frozen lakes and automobile crashes associated with Iowa winter, but the temperatures have been nowhere near cold enough to kill off pests… Read more