The numbers are in. It’s abundantly clear Americans not only want the divisive Congress to quit playing games and become bipartisan leaders – like the good old days – but in 2024 cast Joe Biden and Donald Trump aside and elect a middle-of-the-road President. Regarding bipartisanship, ...

Hillary Clinton writes in The New York Times that Republican insistence to link any increase in the nation’s debt ceiling to spending control and cuts threatens our national security. “It’s a sad irony that Mr. McCarthy and many of the same congressional Republicans seemingly intent on ...

Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) takes pride in preparing students for life after high school. Making sure our students are prepared for the future became more focused in 2016 when the State of Iowa began to require school districts to have an Individual Career and Academic Plan ...

Ithought the oft-repeated desire to weed out waste, fraud and abuse from government spending was something Republicans, Democrats and independents could all agree on in Iowa. Boy, am I naive. A bit of recent Iowa government history illustrates this contradiction between our elected ...

In 1993, Richard Allen Davis, an ex-con with an 11-page rap sheet, broke into a Petaluma home, kidnapped Polly Klaas, 12, then strangled her to death. It was a horrific crime — a sweet child snatched during a slumber party so that she could die at the hands of a random pervert — that so ...

What does being a “No-Kill” shelter mean? The animal welfare industry as a whole is moving towards the operational philosophy of being No-Kill. That means that all adoptable and treatable animals are housed and cared for until they are adopted. This presents a unique challenge to animal ...