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On nature: New climate technologies

Our climate keeps heating up with dire effects, but our governmental leaders seem incapable of finding solutions to get us out of this mess that we have caused. One possible way out is to find new technologies that reduce the emission of carbon dioxide that is driving climate change. Almost ...

Harry and Meghan. Who are these people?

It was a day of deep thinking and heroic typing, my brain so fried I could hardly call out for pizza. Then the news and social media feeds exploded with reports that Harry and Meghan plan to leave California and move back to England. What was that to me? I don't care that the royals moved away ...

Dolly Parton was rich in all the right ways

One of the unfortunate realities of getting older is finding that the people you like begin to die. There are some, maybe, who are taken before their time and others who go at the end of a complete life, but either way the obituaries pile up. When Dolly Parton died the other day, I felt the ...

A foolhardy conflict with an inoffensive ally

President Trump's tariffs aren't popular, but he's found a way to make them even less so -- a trade war with America's most inoffensive ally. When one thinks of countries that deserve to be subjected to a steady stream of insults (it's Lake America now, not Lake Ontario) and a punishing ...

Healthcare should serve Iowans, not Wall Street

As a retired firefighter and former state senator, I’ve remained passionate about healthcare affordability and bipartisan policy that works for everyone. That’s why Sen. Chuck Grassley’s bipartisan report, titled “Profits Over Patients: The Harmful Effects of Private Equity on the ...

Data centers in Marshalltown: A Generation Z perspective

My name is Amber Lawthers. If you don't know me, I am "the esports girl" who put Marshalltown Community College's esports program on the map in 2022. I am a passionate artist with an upcoming BFA in animation and minor in graphic design. I am a young resident of Marshalltown who has lived here ...