The condition of our roads is not the single biggest problem facing Marshalltown. In fact, our biggest challenge is the ability to attract, retain, and develop the taxpayers that we need to be able to pay for our roads! We need doctors, teachers, engineers, business owners, employees, retirees, ...

It seems obvious that our City Administration does not understand voter rejection of increased utility fees. Spending money for street cameras instead of fully funding the library or doing more street repair is ludicrous. If speed camera revenue is earmarked for law enforcement, then maybe ...

I write in support of the Marshalltown Public Library and its excellent director, Sarah Rosenblum. Our library does so much more than provide our citizens free access to books and other reading materials, although the importance of that service cannot be underestimated. The library offers ...

Across the table sat a frail, bleached-out woman. She was unable to speak or think, looking 90 years old, instead of her 47 years. She wasn’t able to respond to any questions, she was devoid of any recognition of her surroundings. God, how did she come to this? How could she do this to ...

TIF (Tax Increment Financing) has by far caused our street and infrastructure destruction in many parts of town, and TIF needs to end. And the new monetary windfall from Marshalltown’s controversial speed cameras is providing proof that city council members as a whole have their priorities so ...

Our country boasts we are a free nation, and we have a military that is willing to defend our freedom. But what is this freedom we are willing to die for? Today much of our culture defines freedom as ‘Freedom From,’ a rejection of any constraints on our choices and a belief that no one ...