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Does Okoboji's future include wind turbines as tall as a 40-story building?
Wind energy has become a major point of conflict at the Iowa Great Lakes. A proposal by a Chicago company, Invenergy, to build as many as 100 towering…
Jul 13
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Photos of Collapsed West Okoboji Lakeshore from the Flood of '24
Some of the worst property damage at Okoboji from the Flood of ’24 has been along the lakeshore.
Jul 12
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Okoboji Flooding Update: Garlock Slough Meets Jones Beach
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Jul 3
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June 2024
[COPY] The Televised Political Debate: Broken?
Is the televised political debate format in America broken? Candidates don’t have to answer the questions. They can say whatever they want to say with…
Jun 28
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The Televised Political Debate: Broken?
Is the televised political debate format in America broken?
Jun 28
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The Okoboji Choice: Flooding vs. A New Bridge
The Okoboji area is Iowa’s largest tourism attraction.
Jun 26
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Okoboji: Flooding surpasses 1993
The docks are under water and the boats are gone, back into storage. Boat hoists stand isolated and empty 30 feet or more from the shoreline. Okoboji is…
Jun 22
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Dorothy's life: Tragedies galore, but a role model for survival in facing adversity
The day my mother, Dorothy Garson, died in 2010, the youngest of her four grandchildren, our daughter, Megan, posted on Facebook: “Dorothy Garson, my…
Jun 15
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A remembrance of the sister and brother I never knew: The horrors of hydrocephalus
It has been more than 75 years since I was introduced to the phenomenon of hydrocephalus and 70 years next month since I was forced to revisit it. I was…
Jun 10
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How the Spirit Lake Massacre led to an iconic amusement park at Okoboji
This is the story of how one of the most horrifying tragedies in Iowa's history gave way to the creation of one of the grandest tourist attractions the…
Jun 1
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May 2024
Okoboji: How the lakes came to be, how they were named, how they compare, destroying a legend
No one has kept count, but it is a fair guess that millions of people have visited the Okoboji area since the era of non-native residency began in the…
May 25
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Political Polling: Understanding what the numbers really mean and don't mean
The public opinion polling business originated in Iowa nine decades ago when the son of a Jefferson dairy farmer set out to help his mother-in-law get…
May 18
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