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Opinion

Public safety without compromise: The Republican approach

Columnists

Iowa has proven something many states are still struggling to figure out: you don’t have to choose between public safety, accountability, and rehabilitation. You can have all three. Iowa’s results didn’t happen by accident. They are the product of leadership from Republican majorities ...

Media lying by omission

Your View

The TV news flaunts the gas price at every newscast because they have Trump. If you ask your device to google the highest gas price, it says over $5 nationally and $4.76 locally in June 2022 which is when Joe Biden was in office. Our media by omission is lying and I think the only unbiased news ...

Mandatory prison time for tax thieves

Columnists

If you steal from taxpayers, you should go to prison. It’s as simple as that. But in Iowa, that’s not what happens. Public dollars meant for schools, roads, and public safety have been taken by people in positions of trust — sometimes tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of ...

Iowa Outdoors

Columnists

Craig Fish, a Toledo, Iowa resident of nearly 35 years, was recently recognized by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for his 50 years of volunteer hunter education instruction. At a meeting held in Linn County on March 17, Fish received an award for his 50 years of volunteerism. In ...

Don’t leave out people with the most severe mental illnesses

Columnists

The mental health “big tent” is often praised for its inclusivity, but not everyone inside it is equally visible. For the past 18 years, my family has watched our son — who lives with a severe mental illness — disappear within a system that increasingly listens only to the voices of ...