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Opinion

MPL boardroom antics part 5

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Editor, In August 2022, patron David B. offered to provide a one-year trial subscription to The Epoch Times to the MPL. Director Rosenblum countered by requiring a commitment of several year’s subscriptions (costing hundreds of dollars) up front. David B. declined. In Nov. 2022, My ...

Breaking the public school monopoly on education overdue

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The Trump administration has been pursuing, on two fronts, the critical objective of fixing America’s broken education system. One, an executive order by President Donald Trump, issued shortly after he assumed office, is to dismantle the Department of Education. Outright closing of the ...

Top 10 ways Trump is destroying our democracy

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It is frightening how Trump is destroying our democracy by ignoring our Constitution. Below are ways that Trump, like all aspiring dictators and oligarchs, gain power: 1. Curtailing freedom of the press: Suing ABC, CBS and The Wall Street Journal; refusing the Associated Press access to press ...

The Texas floods are a warning: Fund public services

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Growing up in Texas, many of my summers were spent at summer church camps just like Camp Mystic, where 27 girls died in the recent flash floods. Over 130 people in central Texas have been confirmed dead overall. Had I been just a few years younger, it’s hard not to feel like I could’ve ...

When waste-cutters miss what looks like, umm, waste

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Andy McKean is a charming country lawyer from Anamosa. He grew up in New York and was drawn to Iowa by his family roots. He has owned a bed-and-breakfast, called square dances and played in a dance band named the Scotch Grove Pioneers. His tenure in the Iowa Legislature stretched for nearly 30 ...