When American manufacturing was truly coming into its own in the early 20th century, workers sometimes labored 12-hour days seven days a week and risked life and limb working near dangerous machinery, while factories blackened the skies of American cities. Yet some of the same people who ...
Oh good, another war. This time a trade war with Canada and for no other reason than ... what? To give Donald Trump a new stage for big-league bullying? To divert attention from the Jeffrey Epstein files? Who knows. Whatever. Trying to humiliate our closest ally does not serve American ...
On Thursday evening, August 27, the Marshalltown Planning & Zoning Commission will hold a “Community Roundtable” at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum (20 W. State St., 2nd floor), beginning at 5:30. Doors will open at 5, so come early and get a good seat at one of the tables. Yes, there will ...
In all my years in TV news, I’ve never heard of a situation like the NBC affiliate in Des Moines is dealing with. This week, WHO-TV meteorologist Jason Parkin announced on Facebook that he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The news comes as a shock because it follows closely ...
Well, it's back-to-school season again, and parents across the country know what that means: It's time to download some new apps. Yes, you already have 10 apps; that's true. There's one for the park district, one for summer camp, one for your oldest kid's teacher to post weekly updates, ...
We have met the enemy -- and it is watching us. There's a growing backlash against Flock cameras, the automated license plate readers that have become ubiquitous across the country. The cameras take images of license plates, which are then stored in a searchable database that police ...
