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Giants were super during football playoffs

by dhayes on February 14, 2012

For a team that stressed the importance of finishing a game out throughout the season, it was the fast start which propelled the New York Giants to their second title in four years. As the Giants made their journey throughout the postseason, it was how they ended their games that got them to Indianapolis. They [...]

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Valentine’s Day is overrated

by dhayes on February 14, 2012

Women always seem to find Valentine’s Day as a way for us guys to buy flowers, chocolates, and/or jewelry. It’s supposedly written somewhere that gifts are supposed to be a token of our affection and appreciation toward our significant other. There’s something wrong with this. Where in the “rulebook of love” does it say that [...]

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Here’s my take on speed cameras in Monte

January 24, 2012 Opinion

Speeding is one of the most common laws people break from a day-to-day basis. I’ll bet the majority of the readers have at least been pulled over by one of the county’s finest due to breaking the speed limit on our roads. Now let me ask you this – what if it were a speed [...]

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Even without their church, they still came together for the Holiday season

December 13, 2011 Opinion

Christmas time is a place where people come together to celebrate what the holiday really means – the birth of Jesus. One common place people go to celebrate that is a church. However, what if that isn’t necessarily available? It was a dark, desolate night on October 26. The steeple of the St. Paul’s Lutheran [...]

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ISU win on Friday ‘just flat out happened’

November 22, 2011 Opinion

Walt Disney seemed to have been watching the inexplicable upset Iowa State showed the entire country from the heavens. Why him you ask? Because he said this: “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” It seemed like the entire game happened out of a dream. What occurred in Ames Friday night wasn’t a fluke, [...]

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Tragedy at Penn State should make us cringe

November 16, 2011 Opinion

It’s a problem that should never come up in this world we live in, let alone a college campus. Yet, we found ourselves with that problem this week as Pennsylvania State University received one of the largest black eyes in recent memory due to a child sex abuse scandal involving a former coach and eight [...]

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What would you do in this situation?

November 8, 2011 Opinion

What would you do if you held one of the most historical pieces of recent memory? Would you sell it, trade it off, hold on to it as a keepsake, or try to find its rightful owner? Well, for Dave Huyette, he had to make that decision, and to him, it wasn’t much of a [...]

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Traveling Iowa can get a little tricky

October 25, 2011 Opinion

Traveling around Iowa in the fall can be beautiful. Except when you’re running halfway around the state getting your name out there, which is what I did a couple weeks ago. Iowa can be beautiful all across the state, but traveling hundreds of miles in order to get a gig for a college kid while [...]

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Our fire fighters deserve our thanks

October 11, 2011 Opinion

That freakin’ ring of the fire alarm. It still gets to me. That loud shrill sent me shaking at the knees, giving me a panic attack and still sprinting for the door. The notice for me to evacuate the school building every time I heard it worked. Kids will once again perform the traditional fire [...]

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Homecoming 2008 was different … I was in a Corvette

September 27, 2011 Opinion

It was a cool, early October night at Badger-Gabriel Field. It was one of those nights where it just felt right to think about football. I was sitting in a chair on the 40-yard line along with some of my best friends as we were on the 2008 Homecoming Court as seniors at Montezuma Community [...]

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