Newsroom Staff

Alec  Funk - Owner, Publisher, CEO, and President

CEO of μ Industries, including μSpace, μNetworks, μCars, μDigging, and μCows Productions. Emigrated from Nebraska in 1998, became naturalized Iowa Citizen in 2007. Currently lives in a Texas compound with several ex-wives and a non-specific number of children.

-Writer of the "Uncle Alec" advice column.

Sarah Anchorage-Funk - Assistant to the President and Current Wife

Former Miss Western Monona County (1996), Potential Graduate of the University of Northern Iowa

Flain Douglas - Editor in Title

2010 Graduate of Northwest Iowa Community College School of International Relations. Former unpaid intern and factotum.

  

Perry Fard - Religion Editor

Proprietor, Fard Tire and Collision. Graduate Western Iowa Tech Truck Driving School (Online). High Priest and Recording Secretary of the Monona County Pagan Bureau.

Girnt Shpilkes - Business Editor

Chairman and CEO of Shpilkes Discount Marketing, VLLC, a Siouxland-based public relations and marketing firm.

Winner of the 2013 and 2014 Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Siouxland Marketing Association.

Molly Dibnum-Telluride - Columnist, "Little Known Facts"

Graduate of Bookmark University Online School of Journalism

Nate Frikandellen - Roving Reporter

Native of Orange City, Iowa.  Graduate of Northwestern College, major in Communications, minor in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Julia Klonopin - Staff Therapist

PsyD 1999 from Western Iowa Tech.  Subscriber to Psychology Today.

 

Beth Peterson - Office Assistant

Former Vice President of Human Resources and Head of DEI Initiatives. 1998 Graduate of Sarah Lawrence, Summa Cum Laude in Political Science.  MBA, Harvard Business School 2001.

Harry Callipygian - Circulation Manager

GED from East Monona School District (in progress).  On MENSA no-fly list since 2009.

Bogo III - Director of Gramatical Errata (DOGE)

Copy Editor and Proofreeder. Grandson of Bogo the Wonder Chimp.

Buttwinder and Buttwinder, VLLC

Attorneys Despite the Law

In Memorium

Bogo the Wonder Chimp 1994-2014

Copy Editor and Proofreeder

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