press-citizen: When my sons were young, a wise friend advised me to live in the day but always simultaneously consider my childrens distant future. I took that maxim to heart. Whenever I read to the boys, taught them or disciplined them, I tried to consider where my actions might lead and what my boys might be like in 10, 20, or 30 years. On June 6, Johnson County governmental and university officials presented a flood forum at the Iowa City Public Library, where they described how they had responded to the 2008...