For over four years, Marshalltown and the City Council have watched the old hospital site. Purchased by an out-of-town person who may have had the best of intentions, but eventually allowed the entire campus uptown to depreciate and deteriorate. Because the property was private property, the ...

Grifters piling bounty by exploiting others’ decent passions merit merciless condemnation. As do fake news mongers who enable dirty crimes. An Alabama grand jury considered evidence presented by the government against the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC is alleged to have funneled ...

Many years ago, I heard a statement that has stayed with me ever since: “Man’s basic spiritual problem is the integrity of the Word of God.” From the opening chapters of Scripture, humanity’s trouble did not begin with violence, injustice, or immorality—it began with a question: ...

In November 1979, I escorted Gov. Robert D. Ray and first lady Billy Ray to the Thai-Cambodian border, where we witnessed thousands of Cambodians who had escaped the Khmer Rouge genocide starving to death. Victims were dying at the rate of 50 to 100 a day, bulldozed into mass graves. After ...

Aimee Gauley was a Creative Writing student of mine. From Ft. Madison, she is a realtor, beautician, author, mother, wife and mushroom hunter! It doesn’t take much scrolling online to see that mushroom season is upon us! The elusive morel is a delicacy and the only thing better than eating ...

Following my inaugural year as Director of Human Resources for the Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD), I deepened my commitment to the field by joining the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). This began an intensive period of professional development that culminated in ...