What do values and life goals have to do with emotional health and well-being? Values and goals act like an inner compass that guide your decisions and actions as you manage the questions and challenges of everyday life. They can keep you emotionally safe, smart, and steady and they help to ...

Marshalltown is gearing up to welcome thousands of riders and visitors as an official RAGBRAI overnight host, and community volunteers are needed to help make the experience unforgettable. Hosting one of Iowa's most celebrated events is a community-wide effort, and volunteers play a vital role ...

Imagine punishing your kid for telling the truth by taking away their allowance years later. It makes no sense, but that’s the logic behind an assertion by Kraig Paulsen, the Director of the Iowa Department of Management (DOM), that failing to reissue the FY2020 Statewide Single Audit puts ...

I understand the immense effort required to run a business—long hours, complex supply chains, and personal sacrifices for employees and children. That’s why the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is partnering with you to ensure your hard work leads to lasting stability, supporting ...

Buried words, like buried treasures, sometimes surprise and enrich. But buried landmines only create problems now, and later. Such is the case with a passage buried in a 71-page Iowa Supreme Court decision last month. In a unanimous ruling, the court decided that a law authorizing Iowa ...

Every December, as we count down the final minutes of another year, millions of Americans make heartfelt promises to themselves and to those they love that this will be the year things finally change. This is the year we'll lose the weight, write the book, run the marathon, start the business, ...