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Data center discussion deserves a bigger room

When a city plans something big, it should not check driver's licenses at the door. That is what happened Monday night in Woodward. The City Council cancelled its regular meeting and instead held what it called a “community conversation" in the Woodward-Granger High School auditorium. The ...

Concurrent enrollment: Giving students a head start on their future

At Iowa Valley Community College District, we see firsthand how concurrent enrollment is shaping students' futures. Through strong partnerships with our area high schools, we work together to provide students with meaningful college coursework, career exploration opportunities, and experiences ...

Supporting public safety takes more than words

I spent 32 years in law enforcement, including more than 13 years as Marshalltown's police chief. I loved my career, and I learned a great deal about public safety, managing budgets and solving problems with limited resources. Those are lessons I want to bring to the Iowa Legislature. One ...

Trust this: There’s no cure for colic other than time

If you're worried that no mysteries remain in the world, that humans have climbed every mountain, mastered every technology and solved every riddle, fear not. There's always colic. The topic of colic came up the other day, when I learned that my husband had completely forgotten that our ...

Is it the return of woke?

After sweeping the swing states and winning the popular vote in 2024, Donald Trump took office with a sense that he occupied the center and had dealt the cultural left a grave blow. Non-aligned or heterodox voices in the podcasting world and media had gravitated toward him, alienated by the ...

Rethink the supply chain

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Anduril, spoke with Joe Rogan a while back and it should be required listening at the Pentagon. America won that war because it designed weapons around what its factories could already build. War planners knew what grades of steel and aluminum General Motors and ...