By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
mitch@observernews.net
Within a span of months, Americans went from being awash in cash to being misers searching out stray pennies. The villains were cast
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
mitch@observernews.net
I am a hopeless optimist. Every single day I hold out hope for the perfect day; but for reasons I can’t quite explain, ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
mitch@observernews.net
Let’s see a show of hands. Who here has a cell phone? Yeah, that’s right, raise your hand if you have a cell ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
mitch@observernews.net
In Iowa there are approximately two people and 15 cows and pigs per square mile and the threat of being shot while behind ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGENmitch@observernews.netI got the much-feared “call in the middle of the night.” Except it wasn’t night — it was in the afternoon. My Mom ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGEN
mitch@observernews.net
I saw him just after I turned into the Walmart parking lot from Highway 301. He was an old man, moving very slowly. ...
By Mitch Traphagenmitch@observernews.net
The Ruskin I returned to in 2010 is much like the Ruskin I found in 1994. There was no boom back then. Homes ...
By MITCH TRAPHAGENmitch@observernews.net
Frank Kruse died last week. No, you don’t know him. For that matter, I didn’t really know him, either, and it has been ...
By Mitch Traphagenmitch@observernews.net
“Once there was a way to get back home…”In April, 2009, I exited off I-75 on the Ruskin exit for the first time ...
