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2 days ago | chronicletimes.com | Tom Cullen

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1 week ago | chronicletimes.com | Alan Guebert

Somewhere along life's highway most of us learned to balance a checkbook. This task usually involved a pencil, the back of a used envelope, and some basic math. Today, however, a click or two in a second or two delivers that up-to-the-minute number. It’s the same for the federal government's checkbook; a click or two takes you inside the nation's ledger courtesy of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

1 week ago | chronicletimes.com | Tom Cullen

Cherokee County is planning $9 million in road reconstruction projects in the western half of the county by the end of the decade. As the county is nearing a construction year with a …

1 week ago | chronicletimes.com | Art Cullen

Iowans do not like change. It might be our strongest attribute. Sen. Chuck Grassley has been in politics since 1959. Terry Branstad holds the national record for longest tenure as governor. A third of us probably think we should return to six-girl basketball. Despite stubborn resistance, change swept over the amber waves of maize. Iowans who twice voted for Barack Obama gave up on hope and change and rolled with fear and resentment.

1 week ago | chronicletimes.com | Morgan Young

Posted 12/31/69On a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Cherokee Downtown Arena echoed once again with the sounds of energy and purpose — not from hooves or cheering crowds, but from rakes, shovels, and the laughter …This item is available in full to subscribers.