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California legalized year-round E15. Why can’t Trump and Congress?

Farm state politicians have been trying for more than a decade to pass legislation that would allow E15 — gasoline containing 15% ethanol — to be sold year-round across the country. While E15 can be sold from Sept. 15 to June 1 each year, an antiquated glitch in the Environmental Protection ...

Thanksgiving Socialism

Thanksgiving Socialism People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a “favorable view” of it. New York just elected a “proud socialist” mayor. My video explains why his ideas would make things worse. Of course they would! Socialism has never ...

Elevating learning and safety

Throughout the past few years, the Technology Department at Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) has been engaged in a major effort to install high-quality audio amplification equipment across the majority of the district’s school buildings. This strategic investment goes far beyond ...

Not a good look

Last week I was reading more news about water only to come across another story which, in roundabout ways, is also about our state’s water quality. It was about the lawsuit filed against Farm Bureau Financial Services and several of their other subsidiaries. Former special investigators for ...

School owes explanation for this good-bye gift

While the text of the Iowa Constitution lacks the prominence of that adopted by our nation’s Founding Fathers, people from Ackley to Zwingle and points in between should track down a copy and give it a read. Buried away in the document adopted by Iowa voters in 1857, they will find Article ...