The 2024 Financial Report of the United States (available online) was presented by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on January 16, 2025.This editorial will point out facts and give my opinion. I am not an expert on the US Budget but some facts stand out. Page 61 of the report is the Statement ...
Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) changes the lives of nearly one in eight people in central Iowa, around 25,000 people per year. Poverty isn’t unique to us — it touches nearly every town and county in the U.S., but what is happening in Marshall County, Iowa, isn’t the same as in Dallas ...
This is the final month for Governor Reynolds’ Healthy Kids Iowa (HKI) program. Since June, the state has been providing a food box per school-age child each month — instead of putting funds directly on an electronic card (known as Summer EBT) that eligible families can use at local ...
Recently, President Trump federalized the DC police and installed federal law enforcement officials in the city. The move was done with the intent to crack down on crime in the city, but the action was unnecessary. Violent crime is down 26% compared to last year according to the DC Police ...
I have remained silent but disgusted at our governor and her ilk to damage our once nationally renowned public school system, but no longer. Her recent proposals to placate wealthy contributors (i.e. diversion of public tax dollars to private school entities) has not ended as recent news of ...
There used to be a Russian Colony just north of San Francisco, which was part of Mexico, in the early 1800s. With President Trump meeting with Putin in Alaska, which was itself bought from Imperial Russia, it’s all leading up to a importination of renewed Russian expansion. Feeding into the ...