Friday Mailbag — Postville Raid

My column on the Postville immigration raid drew quite a bit of mail. Most agreed with me that congressional paralysis on both immigration reform and on reining in the excesses of the nation’s meatpacking industry made Postville’s trauma possible.
I received lots of mail, but the most poignant paragraph came from Roger Engstrom of Postville, a Vietnam vet who [...]

Pierogi Persecution

Let this be a cautionary tale for our local local pierogi peddlers, or any dancing kolaches.
From the St. Petersburg Times:
CLEARWATER – Goodness knows there are plenty of baddies roaming the streets of this city.
Drug dealers.
Thieves.
Killers.
You name it.
But Clearwater is now safe from one brazen – or should we say braised? [...]

Gov. Sexy?

From Radio Iowa:
Iowa’s 42-year-old chief executive is ranked near the top of a list of the nation’s “sexiest” governors. The ranking was done a panel of strippers, organized by Playboy Radio.
The strippers were asked which U.S. governors were most “doable” — a conversation sparked by former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s resignation after Spitzer [...]