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Opinion

President Biden’s $7.3 trillion budget is a recipe for disaster

Columnists

More than a month after federal law requires it, President Biden finally submitted his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 to Congress. The $7.3-trillion price tag alone is reason enough to throw this budget in the trash where the rest of President Biden’s trillion-dollar spending packages ...

Shining a light on secret spending

Columnists

Bureaucrats were busted trying to bamboozle taxpayers by hiding the shocking price tag of a pork project pushed by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Biden. A scathing new audit calls the scheme to bury a San Francisco area subway’s true costs a “breach in ...

Cornfields, common sense and community

Columnists

This week marked the end of the second major legislative deadline, known as the second funnel. The week was very busy as legislators from both chambers frequented each other to discuss their priorities for the session. While only a limited number of bills will ultimately become law, much effort ...

Seeing anew: On view at the Fisher Art Museum

Columnists

This is 11th in a series of ARTicles featuring newly restored paintings on display at the freshly renovated Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center (MACC). Each month a different painting will be featured. In 1958, Bill and Dorothy Fisher gifted Marshalltown an extraordinary legacy; a ...

MACC (Fisher) funding rejection

Your View

Very many of us are disappointed that the City Council did not pass the resolution to provide funding for the public use of the MACC (Fisher Center). Since the last city election, the naysayers have taken over and a lot of us no longer have representation. We thank our fine Mayor Greer for his ...

Letter to the Marshalltown Public Library Board of Trustees

Your View

According to MPL policy, this Statement of Concern is to go to you and the agenda for the March 19, 2024, MPL board meeting. You are receiving it directly because the director rejects them. This will also be sent to the Letters to the Editor forum in the Times Republican and posted on the FB ...