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Columnists

Washington’s zombie apocalypse trick or treat for taxpayers

It’s spooky season and old haunts are returning from beyond the grave. There’s no reason to fear this zombie apocalypse, however, because it’s that time of the year when boarded-up businesses are coming back to life as Spirit Halloween stores. Spirit Halloween’s successful ...

Building the next era of Bobcat Pride

My favorite Fall Fridays are spent in the press box at Leonard Cole Field. The Bobcat Marching Band blasts the fight song as the football team sprints out to cheers from Bobcat fans young and old.” The student section is to my right, parents, grandparents, future Bobcats, residents, and ...

Richard Russo on the loose-o

I call Richard Russo the male version of Elizabeth Strout. He writes with sensitivity, brashness and feeling, deals in family/human issues, and writes a complicated plot, like life itself. I just finished his latest book, “Somebody’s Fool.” It’s his third book of a trilogy: ...

The 2025 West Marshall bond referendum — through my lens pt. 2

In some instances, individual-owed state income tax may not be paid annually, so any time money is borrowed or the sale of bonds are on the table, qualified collateral assets/property are binding. Currently, West Marshall has roughly $3,000,000 in capital project savings not committed to a ...

Epic since 1925: 100 years of Miller Middle School

Milestones are most often marked in time. In 1925, the building that is now Miller Middle School was opened in Marshalltown. At the newly opened Marshalltown High School (Miller), Adoph Rupp (who led the University of Kentucky’s basketball program to nearly 900 wins) began his coaching ...