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• Not a comp board fan

  By David Hotle - Dec 18
  How many of you out there are going to get 5 percent pay raises this coming year without any additional responsibilities? Don’t be shy. Why am I ...
  

• One more before winter

  By David Hotle - Nov 20
  I managed to slip one more in before the winter. That’s right. On Sunday, I grilled out. It was a nice 50 degrees or so. I wore a light jacket to ...
  

• Growing but not aging

  By David Hotle - Nov 06
  Geoarbitrage. That is a big word for a relatively simple concept. I believe business guru and author Tim Ferriss coined the word to describe the ...
  

• Strapped in cinema

  By David Hotle - Oct 16
  As October continues, I have been watching some of my old favorite movies. You find yourself doing that when the weather starts cooling off. I ...
  

• Be True to Yourself

  By David Hotle - Sep 21
  There it was, right out of the blue. I had just done one final check of my e-mail before sending the daily edition of The Journal to print and I ...
  

• On the Ainsworth trail

  By David Hotle - Jun 26
  There they were, big as life. Now what? Of all my virtues, patience is definitely not one of them. To be completely honest, I’ve been hiking on ...
  

• Healing one town at a time

  By David Hotle - Jun 14
  Following the post of the story I ran last week announcing The Wall That Heals was coming to Washington, a reader named Glen Peiffer posted the ...
  

• Time to Prepare

  By David Hotle - Apr 18
  The weather so far this year is really concerning me. Yes, this is me looking a gift horse in the mouth about the mild winter that we had, but so ...
  

• Proving Stephen Bloom wrong

  By David Hotle - Jan 04
  Tonight is the night we people of Iowa get to prove University of Iowa professor and certified pseudo-intellectual snob Stephen Bloom wrong. Over ...
  

• Choosing the top 10 list

  By David Hotle - Dec 08
  What a year it has been! With Christmas and invariably 2012 just right around the corner, December is always a good time to reflect back on what ...
  

• Top 10 stories of 2012

  By David Hotle - Dec 05
  Is it December already? The last month of the year really snuck up on me. With Christmas, or at least the Christmas rush, happening earlier every ...
  

• Bond is definitely back

  By David Hotle - Nov 13
  After a trek through Iowa City/Coralville Friday night to see the new James Bond movie Skyfall, only to find it sold out everywhere I went, I ...
  

• Responsibility shouldn’t be forced

  By David Hotle - Nov 05
  It’s that time again. It is time for us, as Americans, to give our input to the person who should be in charge of government. With this election, ...
  

• Screams from the 1980s

  By David Hotle - Oct 04
  “Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorize y’all’s neighborhood. And ...
  

• Come Celebrate Washington

  By David Hotle - Aug 01
  Ever since I became a reporter, I am constantly reminded that I have what is possibly one of the best jobs in the world. The reason I say that is ...
  

• Rights and Responsibilities

  By David Hotle - Jun 19
  In some areas of the law, at least in Iowa, the rules are becoming more lenient and people are finding themselves with more freedoms than they had ...
  

• Awesome sights

  By David Hotle - Jun 06
  “What is that?” I try not to look like I’m talking to myself in public as a way of avoiding strange looks from my fellow pedestrians. On May 26 I ...
  

• Happy birthday, Mac

  By David Hotle - Jan 24
  Where was all the admiration for Steve Jobs when he was still alive? He really was a remarkable fellow. Yes, I suspect he was kind of a jerk. How ...
  

• Top 10 Christmas movies

  By David Hotle - Dec 22
  What are you doing? It isn’t Halloween! Very true, but it occurs to me that Halloween, like Christmas, comes but once a year. So I figured, it ...
  

• The birth of video games

  By David Hotle - Nov 29
  I think I was on my way back from Florida with my parents when I first experienced a video game called ‘Pong’ in an airport. My grade school-age ...