Storm Lake Times

The Storm Lake Times is a newspaper that publishes articles twice a week and is located in Storm Lake, Iowa. It reports on news from Buena Vista County and some areas of Clay, Pocahontas, Sac, Ida, and Cherokee counties. The first edition came out on June 29, 1990, and it started with a small team of three people working in a compact 20-by-20 foot office at 521 Michigan Street in Storm Lake.

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Trade war costs will be more than taxpayer money

1 week ago | stormlake.com | Alan Guebert

The Trump Administration may grant U.S. agriculture special exemptions from parts of its ever-changing tariff regime but it can't exempt it from everyday economic reality. That mainstay of farming — with or without ever-changing White House trade policies — will keep the 2025 American ag economy on its heels, say the farm income specialists in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Tariffs will only make USDA’s bleak income forecast worse.
Editorials: 2% for schools

1 week ago | stormlake.com | Art Cullen

It came too late and is too little but at least we finally have an education funding bill to present for Gov. Kim Reynolds’s signature, allowing 2% growth for local school districts. Sen. Lynn Evans, R-Aurelia, was able to bring the bill home this week — when it was supposed to be done in February. Republicans control everything but still could not meet their own deadline to determine allowable growth so school districts can figure out their budgets by April. Two percent is not enough.
My TV travelogue

2 weeks ago | stormlake.com | Art Cullen

Omaha’s humble Eppley Airfield looked bombed-out under construction but beautiful nonetheless Sunday after having breathed in 30Rock’s NBC Studios in the heart of Manhattan. It was the Friday Nightcap on “The 11th Hour With Stephanie Ruhle” on MSNBC. I was invited to be part of a roundtable to discuss the week’s news — tariffs and tanking markets — along with Ruhle, Chris Jansing of MSNBC, Steve Liesman of CNBC and Sami Sage of the “Betches” podcast. This Iowegian was wading in deep water.
Editorials: Science matters

2 weeks ago | stormlake.com | Art Cullen

The news can be daunting. A warming climate is worsening acute droughts in Africa and Central America. Food security is tenuous. It is the source of horrible conflict in places like Sudan. Assistance programs from the US and Europe are being curtailed. Tales of woe around food and agriculture are of a biblical scale. Then a dash of hope shoots through.
Our readers have answers

2 weeks ago | stormlake.com | John Cullen

If you want to know something about Storm Lake history, ask a Times Pilot reader. They have the answers!We’ve been reminiscing in the last couple columns about the Storm Lake rock and roll band the Jags, which performed in several iterations during the 1960s. Readers Rick Davis of San Antonio and Bill Turner of Storm Lake have given us information about the Jags, jogging their memories from 60 years ago.
Editorials: Willis Hamilton

3 weeks ago | stormlake.com | Art Cullen

Willis Hamilton was a great lawyer. He was a fearless advocate who was smart and took command of the facts. He was practical but liked to swing for the fences and oftenknocked it out with handsome judgments and settlements. He was candid with his clients for their benefit and knew when to tell them to fold.
Boomers recall 60s music

3 weeks ago | stormlake.com | John Cullen

Last week reader Rick Davis, Laurens native now living in San Antonio, Texas, asked if anyone remembers the Jags, a rock band from Storm Lake in the 1960s. Our friend Bill Turner came to the rescue. He remembers the first iteration of the Jags from a a few years before. The band he remembers consisted of Jack Pilling on lead guitar, Jay Shug on bass and Nick Chamberlain on drums.
If you’re not scared about Social Security, you should be

3 weeks ago | stormlake.com | Terri Hale

Source: Social Security Administration • Iowans receiving monthly Social Security benefits: 687,630 • Total Social Security benefits received by Iowans every month: $1,235,464,000 ($1.2 billion) The Social Security program is 89 years old. Seventy-two million Americans currently receive a monthly benefit. Some 185 million Americans pay into the system and plan to receive benefits someday. They depend on it to be there for them. Recent events raise serious questions whether it will be. Here’s...
O’Bannon succeeds Wordekemper at Benchmark Woodworks - Storm Lake Times Pilot

4 weeks ago | stormlake.com | Dolores M. Cullen

After 39 years Dale Wordekemper is retiring from Benchmark Woodworks in Storm Lake and passing on his business to Hunter O’Bannon. O’Bannon grew up in Storm Lake and graduated from …
Jay and Amy Gross are reviving a house and creating a home

4 weeks ago | stormlake.com | Megan Molseed

A tip about a fixer-upper on an auction block led Jay and Amy Gross of Newell into a project that turned out to be far more involved than they expected. What started as a simple renovation quickly …