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These government officials did whaaaat?

What were they thinking? That is a question I ask myself a lot lately. Those were the first words out of my mouth when the Manhattan district attorney had to postpone Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial on the alleged hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels — the delay ...

President Biden’s $7.3 trillion budget is a recipe for disaster

More than a month after federal law requires it, President Biden finally submitted his budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 to Congress. The $7.3-trillion price tag alone is reason enough to throw this budget in the trash where the rest of President Biden’s trillion-dollar spending packages ...

Shining a light on secret spending

Bureaucrats were busted trying to bamboozle taxpayers by hiding the shocking price tag of a pork project pushed by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Biden. A scathing new audit calls the scheme to bury a San Francisco area subway’s true costs a “breach in ...

Cornfields, common sense and community

This week marked the end of the second major legislative deadline, known as the second funnel. The week was very busy as legislators from both chambers frequented each other to discuss their priorities for the session. While only a limited number of bills will ultimately become law, much effort ...

Seeing anew: On view at the Fisher Art Museum

This is 11th in a series of ARTicles featuring newly restored paintings on display at the freshly renovated Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center (MACC). Each month a different painting will be featured. In 1958, Bill and Dorothy Fisher gifted Marshalltown an extraordinary legacy; a ...

More for them, less for us

In his State of the Union address, President Biden called out “massive executive pay” and vowed to “make big corporations and the very wealthy finally pay their share” of taxes. Corporate tax dodging and CEO pay have gotten so out of control that many major U.S. companies are paying ...