As State Auditor, I’ve been sounding the alarm on the unaccountable private school voucher program for years. Politicians who like to lie say it’s because I’m against private schools. That’s not true at all. What I am against is waste, fraud, and abuse of Iowa tax dollars, and ...
As an educator who’s spent years building a foundation for children, I believe that school choice is a foundational freedom that Iowans should have. Parents should be able to have more say over where their kids go to school and more say over where their tax dollars are spent. The Democrats ...
In the pantheon of parental duties, shopping for school supplies stands alone. At the tripart crossroads of "least enjoyable," "most expensive" and "least negotiable," it is an intrinsic part of life in late summer, and it has been since I was a kid in the Cretaceous era. I remember it much ...
Elected officials tend to fall into two groups: the “delegates” and the “trustees." Delegates follow the wishes of their constituents. Trustees act on their own judgement, regardless of constituents’ wishes. The City Council passed a four-month data center moratorium on July 13, with ...
At the beginning of his sermon, the pastor said “if someone could come away from this passage (Mark 2:1-12) and somehow believe that Jesus is not God in the flesh or God incarnate, there is something else holding them back. There is something else affecting them because this passage is so, so powerful and so clear.” Wow! The first thing that is very clear is “God in the flesh” and “God incarnate” are phrases that are not found in the Bible. The words “incarnate” and “incarnation” never appear in the Bible. According to “Bible Gateway,” the Latin term ...
European Heat Sears Crops Record breaking European heat and severe drought across Europe have wiped out nearly 9 million metric tons of grain, causing more than $2 billion in farm losses. France is seeing its worst outlook in 50 years with massive corn losses while Germany and other western areas report stunted cob growth and shrinking kernel size. The drought in Spain, Italy and Greece has affected olives, threatening olive oil volumes and pushing up prices. Hog Prices Head to Fall Hog prices took out last week’s low, tumbling to the lowest price in two months. A decline in Mexican ...
