Mt. Pleasant News

Alright, alright, alright. It seems someone in Hollywood is finally making logical sense that I can actually get on board with.Since President Trump?s election win, some of his most outspoken skeptics have been Hollywood elites. From Madonna?s remarks at a recent Women?s March, to Super Bowl athletes refusing to meet with the newly elected president, and the countless other celebrity Tweets and online videos ...

Buddy Boy is getting fat! Chubby might be a better word. He can?t even get turned around to lick his you-know-what anymore. His collar is getting tight. I take this personally, like it?s a direct reflection on us, Ginnie and me.We?ve quit giving him table bites, and I?ve tried limiting his food intake, but to know avail. A local dog kennel told me they give their dogs one cup of dry dog food per day. And these ...

This is what democracy looks like.If I hadn?t seen it with my own two eyes I never would have guessed this ferocious, bolstering voice leading the chants was coming from a seven-year-old girl.?This is what democracy looks like,? she belted out again as the crowd waited a beat before repeating. This call and response continued on for the next two miles. When her voice weakened, another would pick up her speech ...

To the editor:I am an avid fan of the Mt. Pleasant bike trail system. I walk every day for the exercise and to connect with nature.I read about the dog altercation at the East Lake Park trail. I have been confronted by dogs twice in the month of January at the East Lake Park trail. Both times the dog owners were with their dogs, but the dogs were not on a leash. Both times I requested the owners to get control ...

It is a near certainty not many people associate the reinvention of college football with Mt. Pleasant.However, author S.C. Gwynne does. Gwynne says as much in a book ? ?The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Reinvention of Football? ? which was released late last year.Gwynne?s book focuses on Coach Hal Mumme, who guided Iowa Wesleyan gridiron teams in 1989-91, arguably the ?golden age? of Tiger football. ...

?Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.? ? Samuel Adams, United States of America Founding FatherHappy Inauguration Day, America!Like every presidential inauguration since our nation?s founding, today is a day to celebrate our republic?s freedom and the people ...

Ginnie and I were working hard on the final draft of a book I?m writing, ?Protected,? and, since I?m going to self-publish, I was preparing a copyright page.I studied the keyboard and the million fonts for the copyright symbol (a circle with a ?c? in the middle) but, for the life of me, could not find one. I was about to give up, and just use the word ?copyright? with no symbol, when I thought I?d give it the ...

Three books I recommend are, ?A Gentleman in Moscow? by Amor Towles, ?The Wonder? by Emma Donoghue, and ?Snow Falling on Cedars? by David Guterson. All three are love stories of sorts, and I?ll give all three a rating of an Empty Nest eight.?A Gentleman in Moscow? is an intriguing and well written novel that takes place in early twentieth century Russia at the end of the Stalin (Soso) regime and beginning of ...

DEAR ABBY: I have had a best friend for more than 20 years. We met when we were 18 and have been inseparable ever since. I was best man in his wedding, and when his first child was born, I traveled six hours to be at the hospital when "Sara" was born. I have never missed a birthday or Christmas.When my friend announced they were moving from Ohio to Arizona, I knew I couldn't be away from him and his family, so I ...

When I was in kindergarten, and Mrs. Arnold asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said a cashier. It wasn?t that, as a girl, I didn?t feel I could do more I just simply liked counting money and making change. When my parents went to shows to sell their swings, my special treat for being a big help was getting to count the cash box and making sure I had the same amount as Mom did.In seventh-grade, as our ...

Around 8 p.m., my phone rang. It was Ginnie. ?My car?s making a bad thumping noise,? she said. ?I?m pulled over at the Hy-Vee parking lot. I?m afraid to drive it.??I?ll be right there,? I told her. I grabbed a flashlight, threw on a coat, and headed out. Sure enough, I could see Ginnie?s little Nissan Rogue sitting in the entrance to the Hy-Vee parking lot, like Little Red Riding Hood.I pulled in behind her and ...

Are we becoming softer?I have thought about this occasionally, with most of those thoughts occurring in winter.No, I?m not one of these fathers who told my kids (when they complained about having to walk to school or wanted a ride) that when I was a kid I walked a mile to school, uphill both ways. I know that last statement dates me, but it was a fairly common parental rebuttal in those days.Back in another ...