August 22 is World Plant Milk Day — a perfect time to try something new and kind! Most people don’t know how cruel the dairy industry is to cows. Baby calves are taken from their mothers, and cows are forced to make milk until they can’t anymore. It’s sad and unfair. But the good ...

“It’s horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment,” Ansel Adams once said. Later, Bill Moyers clarified the problem being that the power of money trumps the power of democracy, meaning that a democratic form of government inevitably bends to the will of the ...

There is a story about a man who lived a long time ago. No one is alive today that we could know the truth of his words. But we don’t have to worry for Scripture says that this diety-God, cannot lie. Humans have been alive for 7000 years. Since man fell from the Garden, God has been active ...

To the editor, The reasoning behind an interview by Robert Maharry with Lonnie Hogeland is questionable. Filing for municipal office has not begun, Hogeland has not focused on a specific office and the scattershot remarks by Hogeland reveal an unfocused mind. His remarks are immature, mean ...

Editor, we’ve got a local business that wants to expand, and our city leaders are telling him how many trees he needs around his expansion. I know of a building project years ago that gave up on his plans after the city council started adding on what he had to do. I hope city leaders think ...

With the consistent negativity expressed about the Marshalltown Public Library in the Times Republican from a local citizen, I decided it’s long overdue for me to express my appreciation to everyone involved in the running of our local library. That appreciation goes out to its director, ...