I’ve decided to miss out on more these days.
Maybe you’ve heard of FOMO, the “fear of missing out.” Well, this is the opposite. I’m trying to find JOMO, the “joy of missing out.”
For my JOMO education, I can thank Christina Crook, an author who specializes in “digital ...
It’s a trend that’s been building for a few years now.
Books by predominantly Black authors are being banned around the country. School curricula have been amended to skip the history lesson on slavery and racism. Critical Race Theory (CRT) — and anything that vaguely looks like it — ...
There’s no denying that the United States has an opioid crisis. Unregulated, deadly drugs have found their way into our urban centers, our suburbs, and even our rural main streets. Every year, these fatal substances indiscriminately kill hundreds of thousands of Americans regardless of age, ...
In Iowa and across the country, Main Street is in trouble.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of communities, but under former President Joe Biden’s administration, they were crushed by bureaucratic overreach.
After four years of price hikes and dismay, optimism on Main Street recently ...
Week 4 of the 91st General Assembly has come to a close. As session continues on, weeks can blur together as we go to subcommittees, committees and on to floor debate. This week brought with it a somberness that we will carry with us for some time. Our colleague, Representative Martin Graber ...
From the booming voice of Hall of Famer, Butch Baer, announcing starting lineups at Boy’s State Baseball to 2023 State Champion Abby Tollefson’s near perfect dives, Marshalltown has been the place where championship dreams become realities.
Recently, Marshalltown was informed that after ...