A well-thought-out, creative area in a community sparks a movement of community pride to bring people together and new small businesses. Countless small, medium, and large communities across the nation and Iowa have had to reinvent common spaces and themselves to adapt to changing environments. ...

I read Pete Grady’s letter to the editor where he was critical of Randy Evans' Op-Ed piece regarding the Marshalltown Library’s rejection of the Epoch Times newspaper and the American Rifleman magazine. Grady incorrectly identified the source of the Op-Ed as coming from the Iowa Capital ...

It is an exciting time for Marshalltown! Congratulations to our city on the Council’s decision to invest in the implementation of our community’s Arts & Culture Master Plan! This is a positive step forward in helping Marshalltown become the place that people, young and old, want to ...

You are eliminating many people from shopping downtown if they have to back into a parking space. That is common sense. Who came up with that crazy idea? Especially older shoppers. And it holds up traffic. While negotiating into the space, cars are backed up. Just not feasible. Worse than ...

You reprinted the Iowa Capital Dispatch’s attack on the Marshalltown Library. The Dispatch article avoided the real issue: whether The Epoch Times should be in the Library. Instead, the Dispatch (and the T-R, by its reprint without comment) avoid the issue and blame the victim of ongoing ...

Farmers are the backbone of America. Today, many of our nation’s leaders have forgotten that truth. That’s why we need a President with a strong record of standing up for farmers – and Nikki Haley is that leader. How do I know she’ll fight for us? America watched her do it as ...