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Los Angeles riots may encourage illegal immigrants to self-deport

“How’m I doin’?” the late New York Mayor Ed Koch used to ask constituents on his travels through the city. President Donald Trump, in the opinion of most Americans, is doin’ pretty well. His job approval, which jutted downward after he announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on ...

Barker Bulletin

Now that the ink of the Governor’s pen is dry on the final bills of the 2025 Legislative Session, I am pleased to report that meaningful and robust Pharmacy Benefit Manager reform is now the law of the land in Iowa! I am very grateful for Governor Reynolds choosing to stand with patients and ...

In advocacy of intellectual evolution

I once encountered the following online assertion (which I’m paraphrasing): “My politics today are the same as when I was in junior high, in the 1960s.” It was perhaps the saddest sentence I’ve ever read. The writer was bragging about intellectual and philosophical stasis, of bizarre ...

Summer fun underway at the Y

That first week of summer break in Marshalltown has come and gone? For the parents out there are you ready for school to start again? Shhh don’t tell that to the hard-working teachers who can finally come up for air this time of the year. The perfect place to get youth off the couch and ...