Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, the two and only. You either get them or you don’t… and I am very, very glad I do. I first heard of Bob & Ray as a formative influence on Bob Newhart, another high and ...

Sadly, this week we lost a legend of comedy with the passing of Bob Elliott at the age of 92. Bob had a long career in comedy, beginning in 1951, much of it alongside his longtime partner Ray Goulding ...

We Iowa baby boomers lost our governor on Sunday. Governor Ray – he had been Governor so long we thought his first name was Governor – helped us come of age in the turbulent late 1960s and '70s. And ...

Bob Ray was eight years out of the governor’s office by the time I moved to Iowa. But his legacy as a statesman deeply committed to the greater good had left Iowa with bragging rights, which I quickly ...