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Recent letter contained false information

A letter to me was published on Dec. 5 in the Times-Republican. I will not answer that letter because it contained false information without evidence that the writer received freedom of information correspondence between the Marshalltown Public Library and the State Library of Iowa. I don’t ...

Randy Evans was not duped

Dear Mr. Lewis, Randy Evans, Columnist, and representative of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council chose to write his first of two articles in March after reading Marshalltown Public Library board meeting reports in this paper. As far as I know, no one asked him to write them and ...

Dark money is the real issue

It was repugnant the description of caucus growers by professor Steve Corbin in his Nov. 24 article “2024 caucus primary and general elections controlled by extremists” and his omission of the true source of election corruption “Dark Money” exemplified by the Associated Press story ...

CO2 pipelines a terrible idea

The recent article submitted by the Des Moines Register stating the downside of CO2 pipelines was spot on. What a terrible idea! And an accident waiting to happen! Instead, we need more nature to take up CO2! What sense does it make to destroy what precious few remaining forests, prairies ...

Police reform is needed

Is there any other country in the world where police have been given so much “favored status” in their laws as they’ve been given here in Iowa? Our Republican lawmakers made police “immune from most lawsuits and 99 percent immune from prosecution.” Only the State AG can decide if ...

Why has Randy Evans become a dupe?

Dear Mr. Evans, I live in North Carolina and am well aware of the self-serving John Worden from prominent friends in Marshalltown. They are prominent because they spend their time actually accomplishing positive projects for the town and they support Sarah Rosenblum. The irony is that John ...