President Trump has been musing about whether he's the most powerful man in world history, and judging by the results lately, the answer is definitely "no." It's certainly true that Trump has technical tools at his disposal that would have astounded famous pre-20th century contenders for the ...
Recently I attended the City Council meeting where a moratorium on AI Data Centers was discussed. I am all for economic development, but I wish we could have taken more time to research and actually discuss as a community the concerns with Data Centers. At that meeting we heard from our ...
Success often sows the seeds of future failure. That's the danger America faces now. America is a great and powerful country. But this shouldn't blind us to an obvious historical reality. Great empires rise -- and fall. Just look at the history of the Roman Empire. Or the Babylonian Empire. ...
At Monday night’s council meeting, one thing was clear: Marshalltown is a city that makes decisions under pressure. Across multiple topics, the conversation kept coming back to the same reality. We have limited budgets, tight timelines, and a need to move forward with the information we ...
There was a time in human history when all we knew was what we learned, by listening to stories. This past Memorial Sunday, our pastor emphasized the importance of telling stories. Not only the Bible's story about the Kingdom of God, found in Matthew 28, but our own personal story. It appears ...
So, I will preface to say that I myself, have many views that could be considered by some to be, questionable, argumentative, leaning one way, or another. Or that my opinions may not matter because of mistakes I made, and so on. By saying this I mean that we all know someone that is offended by ...