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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iam so proud to be a part of a school district that is demonstrating the value of its employees by increasing salaries for the important work they do with our students and district. Congratulations to the school board for unanimously approving wage hikes putting every employee over $15 per ...

Very few media outlets published information about the Feb. 19, 2023 pro-Putin rally or the multitude of Republicans and other influential politicians being pro-Putin and anti-support for Ukraine. Many within the GOP have witnessed their party evolve from promoting isolationism in the ...