Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger

Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger

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Getting the arts early can be so powerful
Let me tell you a little about Robert Larsen, and more about Dale Jansen, two Iowa farm kids. Inspired early themselves, they inspired many of the rest…
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Jefferson loses a “change agent”
Rich Osborne, who died June 3 at 49 years old, kept us wonderfully caffeinated at Greene Bean Coffee, inspired about community, and working on…
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The story of our lottery fraud goes global
A fascinating new documentary on the 15-year-old “Hot Lotto” scandal that happened in Iowa debuts today, June 3, free on YouTube.
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May 2025

Suiting up for the ol’ alma mater
Did you notice the Vanderbilt Commodores are the No. 1 national seed in the NCAA baseball tournament? That reminds our old "VandyBoy" of some stories.
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Let's chat Friday, May 30, at noon
A bunch of us in the Iowa Writers Collaborative and our subscribers will cover a variety of topics in the "Office Lounge" at 12 p.m. CDT on Zoom. Join…
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Our little-known Civil War valor
In Greene County, Iowa, today’s high school students help us recall & honor 32 schoolboy soldiers & two teachers enlisting from the town Old Rippey. Ten…
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Requiem for an Iowa hero, Bernie Saggau
A high point of my career – writing the biographies of both Saggau and E. Wayne Cooley, who made Iowa high school programs among the nation’s best.
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In gratitude for a friendship of 60 years
Douglas T. Bates III and I both know something is going to come along and pick off one of us, then the other. But the bond between us has been…
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Where diversity is a darned good story
The Iowa PBS show “Iowa Press” invited three of us to explain Greene County’s initiative for growth & diversity, the “Multicultural Family Resource…
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April 2025

A tour of “Iowa-rooted” hymns?
The columnist is deep into church music right now after hearing so much of it during the Easter season. And he’s really loving the old hymns. Do you?
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Our "Office Lounge" open today at noon
I'll be at a funeral, but I invite my readers to join my Iowa Writers Collaborative colleagues and their subscribers for our monthly chat on Zoom.
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Getting my own “Rick Morain glasses”
I'm copying the noted Jefferson, IA, journalist, who has worn black horn-rimmed eyeglasses 64 years, on his early belief “they might make me look more…
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