My predecessor in Iowa’s Third Congressional District was known as “a watchdog to the Treasury.” During 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Harold Royce (H.R.) Gross kept a tight-fisted grip on the federal purse strings, pulling no punches on pork-barrel spending. ...
On Wednesday, July 23rd, I spoke at a House Agriculture Committee hearing to discuss the harmful impacts of California’s Proposition 12, or Prop 12, on Iowa hog farmers and our rural communities. Enacted in 2018, this notorious state measure is incredibly detrimental to producers in Iowa and ...
As I close out my first six weeks in my role as Marshalltown’s Park and Recreation Director, I am overwhelmed. The kindness, excitement, hope and sense of belonging I have felt here has far surpassed any new community I have joined throughout my career. At times, I catch myself still not ...
The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and dispenses it in the present; a regulatory structure that focuses more on redistributionism and top-down control than on innovation. But, we ...
Summer census time is happening now for several common Iowa wildlife species. Roadside counts will soon get underway between Aug. 1-15. Spotlight surveys in the dark of night by conservation officers to locate deer are another means to help gauge those species. Citizen reports of pheasant ...
Until last week, most of us had never heard of the data company Astronomer or its then CEO, Andy Byron. That was before he attended a Coldplay concert in Massachusetts on Wednesday with a woman later identified as the head of human resources at the company. The two were caught by the “kiss ...