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MPL boardroom antics pt. 10

MPL boardroom antics part 10 Editor, this is the latest of dozens of rejected Statements of Concern. A Reasons for trustees to fire MPL director. 1 Unethical treatment of patron DB Aug. 2022 2 Gross behavior toward patron JW Nov 15, 2022 . No apology offered. 3 Failure to provide accurate , balanced data to trustees prior to voting on SOC. No apology offered. 4 Failure to promote compromise first offered by patrons early 2023. 5 Promoted reactionary and punitive policy aimed at punishing patrons civil attempt to hold MPL admin accountable for #1 thru #4 above. 6 ...

Dave Dawson

Here in Ames you are gerrymandered into District 4 for our representative in the House. This means you are stuck with the red counties up in Northwest Iowa. They have given us Representative Feenstra who has refused to take 90 million in earmark money. While districts represented by lawmakers like Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Ashley Hinson, and Zach Nunn regularly secure tens of millions in local project funding for roads and bridges, water infrastructure, health and human services, flood mitigation, education, and childcare, our representative has given us 0. If we turn out at the ...

What just happened?

The Monday, August 10 meeting of the City Council certainly didn't work out the way that everyone who spoke thought it would or should!!! Or did it? Without fail those in attendance were there to make sure that a moratorium was in place to have a check and balance for or against a data center coming to town. If I follow the voting chaos correctly, and I would be the only one, there's a moratorium in place but there won't be any opportunity for checks and balances because there won't be a 2nd or 3rd reading with public discussion. Thank you Gary for trying and shame on the ones that won't ...

A word of caution to the Marshall County Supervisors

I read that you are considering providing wind turbines to generate electricity. I read some time ago that they come from China and are known to break down and difficult — almost impossible to repair at all. They destroy topsoil, kill birds and if placed near residences, people have complained of headaches, difficulty sleeping, anxiety not experienced before the nearness of wind turbines. As a word of caution, please talk with people who lived near wind turbines before your decision is made if they haven't already moved away.

Jeff Schneider changed my mind

On August 8th, on page 10 of the Times Republican there was a very informative and well written article by Jeff Schneider about a Data Center being considered for Marshalltown and their ramifications. He not only addressed Data Center’s benefits to communities but also water usage by Data Centers. From my sources in the media I was led to be believe that Data Centers used more than copious amounts of water for cooling which led me to being really negative about them. He assuaged my concerns when he writes, “Modern data centers of any size can now be built with closed-loop ...

Thank you Jeff Schneider

Thank you to Jeff Schneider for writing the letter that appeared in the T-R on Saturday, August 8 regarding data centers and giving people the information they need to make a determination on whether a data center would be good for Marshalltown. There seems to be so much misinformation out there that naysayers are unfortunately perpetuating that it is making several citizens think data centers are horrible. I’m glad Mr. Schneider addressed the fear-mongering and laid to rest the misinformation about water, freebies and electricity shortages/costs. I hear many of these concerns ...