In Marshalltown, we take care of our neighbors. We see it in our churches, our schools, our local businesses, and the countless volunteers who give their time to help someone going through a difficult stretch. But a troubling trend at the Emergency Food Box tells us that more of our neighbors ...
What you put first, you will keep. After all, most of us wouldn't mind a bit more money, but when you think about it, you already know where you can get it. You can always steal from the offering plate, push over a panhandling woman, scam a desperate friend. There's a bit of a trick, though. ...
In our increasingly interconnected world, multilingualism is a superpower. The ability to communicate effectively in more than one language helps people think flexibly, understand different cultures, and succeed in the workforce. Businesses value multilingual employees to expand services and ...
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 2201, the school funding bill, into law on Feb. 26. The 2% increase in per-pupil funding for the 2026-27 school year works out to $160 more per student. When the decline in public enrollment is taken into account, it’s a statewide increase of $17 ...
Government of the people belongs to the people. So, it should come as no surprise that one of their most frequent concerns is how government spends taxpayers’ money. Those concerns took me to Davenport a few weeks ago, where I spent more than an hour testifying in a lawsuit filed by Dr. ...
Democrats, suffering from denial and delusion, tend to think of themselves as the guardians of the rule of law. Back in reality, nothing could be further from the case. Consider Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who fancies herself a rule of law-championing model immigrant despite the fact she ...
