That first week of summer break in Marshalltown has come and gone? For the parents out there are you ready for school to start again? Shhh don’t tell that to the hard-working teachers who can finally come up for air this time of the year. The perfect place to get youth off the couch and ...
Parents waited, fans from Mason City waited, grandparents waited. On Thursday, June 12, our MHS Bobcats were supposed to have a doubleheader against Mason City, starting at 5 p.m. Around 4 p.m. we had a sudden rainstorm that came down fast and furious leaving our baseball field soaked and full ...
As Los Angeles burst into riots this week over a federal immigration raid, one protester took to his social media channels to explain just what was going on -- why arsonists armed with Palestinian flags stood alongside vandals armed with Palestinian flags, why some masked protesters hurled ...
For weeks, Congress has been wrapped up in passing President Trump’s big, brutal budget — the one that pays for tax cuts for the wealthy and a trillion-dollar Pentagon budget by taking food stamps and Medicaid away from people struggling to get by. The GOP-controlled House of ...
One of my first memories of Uncle Virgil was when my mother took me to see him and Auntie Florence on their farm between Nevada and Maxwell, Iowa. It was spring and, as we neared, we could see Uncle Virgil cultivating corn in a roadside field. My mother stopped the Buick and let me out. I ...
As a lifelong marketer and Consumer Behavior professor, it’s interesting to observe how people’s opinions change as details of an issue become more apparent. Behavioral change — once information and knowledge increases — is common among people who are open-minded, educated and critical ...