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Honoring the best and the brightest

As the school year winds down, the award season ramps up – often, the spring semester is a time to celebrate the best and the brightest students that pass through our hallways. As we prepare for graduation in May, we also pause to celebrate the Phi Theta Kappa students in our midst. What is ...

Trade matters to Iowa

With the most productive farmers and farmland in the world, Iowa is blessed to grow and raise significantly more than the 3 million people of our state can consume. Therefore, we have both the opportunity and the responsibility to help provide for consumers all over the planet. And Iowans can ...

Recognizing Child Abuse Prevention Month

Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, the Child Abuse Prevention Services of Marshall County, and the Hardin County Child Abuse Prevention Coalition recognize the importance of community-based support for all children and families during National Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month in April. The theme of ...

Ailing Seniors deserve dignity

What’s wrong with us? Our nation’s moral compass, I mean. I don’t like being a downer, just focusing on wrongs, but some wrongs stand out as morally abominable, such as this one. It’s about hundreds of thousands of our low-income elders who, toward the end of life — when they’re ...

Cornfields, common sense and community

The 11th week of session has come and gone. Next week is the second legislative deadline known as the second funnel. By the end of next week, any bills currently being considered must be through the committee process in the opposite chamber of origination or they are out of consideration for ...

Please pardon our progress

The press release is out for the closure of State Street from Third Avenue to First Avenue starting March 27, and the excitement is building for downtown renovation to begin. The closure is the first of four phases which will result in closures along State Street for the rest of 2023 and likely ...