Thank you, Marshalltown! After thirty-two years of law enforcement service, I am reluctantly hanging it up. For the past thirteen years, I have had the honor to serve you as your police chief and to work alongside some of the best law enforcement professionals in Iowa. It has been a great ...

It’s hard to believe we’re already into the third week of the legislative session! Things have really kicked into gear here at the Capitol, and I want to update everyone on what we’ve been working on. This week, a lot of our focus was on education. As a mom of two girls in public school, ...

I hope Tyson Foods, whose plant is located here in Waterloo, made significant contributions to President Trump’s re-election effort, including purchasing gold shoes and meme coins. Con Ag may be Iowa’s savior if they supported him vigorously. Likewise, the producers of corn, soybeans and ...

The town we used to live in on Colorado’s Front Range, was small enough, about 2,000 people, to have THE town drunk. His name was Arnie, or at least we called him Arnie, and he had a dog, Butch, a pitbull mix. Arnie and Butch would wander, or stagger around, the town, trying to bum money. Of ...

It is week three in the legislative session. This week I was the chair of multiple subcommittees, these are the ones that I passed out of subcommittee onto full committee regarding the following house files: HF 26, HF 40, HF 42, and HF 98. This week, the Education committee passed House Study ...

Not a month old, the second Trump presidency is barreling toward the decline that big-mouth leaders have been sending their countries for centuries. Theodore Roosevelt warned of such dangers. Speaking at the 1901 Minnesota State Fair, he famously shared the African proverb, “Speak softly ...