Over the last two weeks, Marshalltown has hosted the 2026 Iowa YMCA State Swimming Championships and the Iowa High School Esports Association Winter State Showdown. These events bring big increases in hotel stays, bustling restaurants, and championship memories for competitors who travel here ...
A suspicious laggard sauntered up the steps outside my house at 409 N 9th St carrying a piece of paper and a blue roll of masking tape. He plastered a homemade eviction notice onto my front door. The stranger didn’t represent the sheriff or any government official: rather the note appealed to ...
We continued with a heavy debate schedule this week as we approach the second funnel date where our House bills must be passed to the Senate. On Wednesday of this week, the Environmental Protection Committee that I chair and the Health and Human Services committee held a joint meeting so that ...
On Friday I had the honor to help welcome home 175 Iowa National Guard soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division after successfully completing their mission with Operation Inherent Resolve. A total of 575 brave Iowa soldiers are making a phased return to the United ...
The Iowa Legislature is at it again, trying to eliminate publication of legal notices in newspapers. And it will cost Iowa’s citizens way more money than it saves. Republican sponsors say it will save money for cities and counties, but as editor Art Cullen noted in his editorial last week, ...
Since I seem to lack the resilience to bounce back with any speed to my previous pre-cancer, healthy condition of medium-to-high energy, and have been forced into what you might call a palliative existence, it has left me ample time to read and write. I am thankful that, although my body may be ...