There is a simple way to assess how much Iowa governments think ordinary citizens deserve to know, and engage in the debate, when officials have an initiative they are eager to undertake. Call it the parking lot test. The recent whirlwind of economic events in Iowa suggests that this time, ...
This is the second in a monthly series of ARTicles highlighting the current exhibit at the Marshalltown Arts & Civic Center (MACC). Titled: Seeing Anew Part 11, the exhibit features roughly half of the works from the Fisher Art Collection, the other half which comprised the original Seeing ...
I've spent a lot of time over the last few days going back through Marshalltown's data center ordinance process. Not just the current ordinance. I went back through the Planning and Zoning packets, the different drafts, the public listening sessions, the meeting minutes and the changes that ...
America's left-wing fringe, which is increasingly indistinguishable from the Democratic Party mainstream, absolutely hates our nation. You'd have to be blind not to see it. Take the latest example: Jonathan Andrew Tijerina, the punk who just desecrated the 9/11 Memorial Reflecting Pool in ...
Iowa voters have spent this fall hearing two men who want to be the next governor call each other rich, rootless and dishonest. What Iowans have not seen, however, are documents that would settle much of the argument. Neither Zach Lahn nor Rob Sand has released his tax returns, and Iowa ...
Should churches be celebrating Reformation Day, which is on Oct. 31? I have a mixed reactions to celebrating Reformation Day. I’m disappointed that most Protestants and Catholics have no more idea of what the Reformation was about than they could explain the Theory of Relativity. This, no doubt, is because few churches today bother to teach about Reformation Day. Yet it is a significant historic event. It was on Oct. 31, 1517 an Augustinian monk, Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis to the church door in Wittenberg as an invitation to scholars in the church to debate those issues. What ...
