In the pantheon of parental duties, shopping for school supplies stands alone. At the tripart crossroads of "least enjoyable," "most expensive" and "least negotiable," it is an intrinsic part of life in late summer, and it has been since I was a kid in the Cretaceous era. I remember it much ...
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 ...
As State Auditor, I’ve been sounding the alarm on the unaccountable private school voucher program for years. Politicians who like to lie say it’s because I’m against private schools. That’s not true at all. What I am against is waste, fraud, and abuse of Iowa tax dollars, and ...
As an educator who’s spent years building a foundation for children, I believe that school choice is a foundational freedom that Iowans should have. Parents should be able to have more say over where their kids go to school and more say over where their tax dollars are spent. The Democrats ...
At the beginning of his sermon, the pastor said “if someone could come away from this passage (Mark 2:1-12) and somehow believe that Jesus is not God in the flesh or God incarnate, there is something else holding them back. There is something else affecting them because this passage is so, so powerful and so clear.” Wow! The first thing that is very clear is “God in the flesh” and “God incarnate” are phrases that are not found in the Bible. The words “incarnate” and “incarnation” never appear in the Bible. According to “Bible Gateway,” the Latin term ...
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 ...
