Falling in love with a college once is a milestone; falling in love with it twice is proof to its life-long impact. As a proud, twice-graduate of Marshalltown Community College (MCC), my journey there spans two distinct chapters of my life. I first arrived as a young high school graduate, eager ...
If Iowans want a glimpse of their future, they might just look to the south. To Missouri. Republicans there are asking people to approve a constitutional amendment next month to eliminate the state income tax and authorize an expansion of the sales tax to make up for the lost revenue. This ...
Many of today's consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable cash flow to siphon off, are favored targets. Sure, there's a sucker born ...
The oath is a familiar one. The president and vice president take it, as do members of Congress and many other high government officials. It requires the oath taker to defend the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic." We can identify many of America's foreign enemies, but ...
It's easy to forget, but from 2022 through 2024, Democrats engaged in some of the most reckless, republic-destabilizing actions since their partisan forebears fired on Fort Sumter in 1861. In colluding to prosecute then-former (and future) President Donald Trump on sham legal grounds across ...
The first thing Mariel Gardner mentioned was the sound. Cicadas and katydids buzzed while butterflies and bees drifted among bright yellow blooms in Louisville's Chickasaw Park. Gardner smiled. "This is what I wanted to hear," she said. A new aptly named Butterfly and Bee Pollinator ...