Fall 2016 Inspire(d) Magazine

John Beard If anyone can attest to the power of a single vote, it’s Decorah-based welder John Beard. Four years ago, Beard, who currently sits…

Chuck Gipp It makes sense that current Iowa DNR director Chuck Gipp thought he “knew a lot of people” when, in 1990, he declared his…

Alicia Leinberger The words – uttered on public radio the fall of 2015 – stopped Alicia Leinberger in her tracks. They also changed the trajectory…

How can I change the world? How many of us have ever pondered that question, only to become paralyzed by the next question that (almost) inevitably follows:…

Sarah Schroeder The debate was heated, and, as it turned out, not easily forgotten. “I felt that the admission prices being proposed for the town’s…