×

Opinion

Proto Evangelerium (IA)

Your View

The Gospels don’t start with Matthew in the New Testament! One scripture that is seldom preached in Churches, is called Proto Evangelerium, or “first gospel.” It comes from Genesis 3:15. God is informing Adam and Eve the conditions that will come upon their lives, and ours! The good ...

Three Crosses

Columnists

There are three crosses on the hillside, above a pond, with crops of soybeans or corn in the background and the rising sun if you should pass by early in the morning. They’re right at, exactly, Mile Marker 76 on Highway 218, going north to Iowa City. It’s a mile or so north of the Highland ...

Exactly what business are we in with Measles?

Columnists

Measles is a “cost of doing business,” says a highly placed official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I’d like to know what business that is. To be fair, let me finish the CDC principal deputy director’s quote. Ralph Abraham said that measles is a cost of doing ...

MPL Boardroom Antics pt. 7

Your View

Rejected Statement of Concern Jan 2026 Choreographed weaponization of policy and procedure Nov. 2022 in response to Statement of Concern. Without scrutiny, Beek, Gaffney, and Morrison accept the weaponization. Rosenblum lied in a Jan. 2023 TR interview stating that the public was ...

Iowa’s farm income projected to plummet. Who is here to help?

Columnists

Nick Larson and a quarter of Iowa farmers get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. When ACA provisions expired at the end of 2025, Larson’s family faced an immediate tax increase of $3,000 per year. Skyrocketing health care prices are only one challenge Iowa farmers are ...

Iowa does not need 4-year community college degrees

Columnists

I love Iowa. After growing up in Ottumwa and graduating from Indianola’s Simpson College, I worked in South Dakota at the start of my career. I enjoyed my years in the Mount Rushmore State, but their higher education system pales in comparison to Iowa’s, and the same is true of other ...