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Reserve your urgent care time before you get really sick

I’ve been sick since late August. I’ve got a rattle in my chest that would make some poisonous Madison County snakes jealous. I’ve done telemedicine with my primary care doctor. The treatment she prescribed ended and my cough remained. It was a Monday. My doctor was out of the office until Wednesday. I have asthmaContinue reading “Reserve your urgent care time before you get really sick”

COVID Kim Reynolds cracks, issues mask order but not before making Iowans look like a bunch of dummies

ITEM FIRST: COVID Kim cracked. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds finally issued a statewide mask order. The long-overdue order came 9 months into a pandemic that has killed more than 2,000 Iowans. It came a day after COVID Kim made national headlines babbling about science on “both sides” of masks for preventive measures against the spread.Continue reading “COVID Kim Reynolds cracks, issues mask order but not before making Iowans look like a bunch of dummies”

HOT SHEET: 2020 Sadness Machine cranks out two more blows; more jokes to learn and say; and trick-or-treat rules

Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020 From the desk of Daniel P. Finney, sergeant of the watch, Drake Neighborhood Station, Des Moines, Iowa. ITEM ONE: Two dozen of us stood under and around a tent spiked to a hilly expanse at Highland Memorial Gardens to say goodbye to our beloved Lois Newcomb, mother, grandmother and great-great grandmother.Continue reading “HOT SHEET: 2020 Sadness Machine cranks out two more blows; more jokes to learn and say; and trick-or-treat rules”