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The Working Families Tax Cuts deliver safety for American families

Families should never have to worry about whether their communities are safe, they should be confident that violent criminals will be held accountable, and that our nation is secure. Keeping Americans safe is one of the most important roles of the federal government and Republicans are helping ...

The Republican Party's dissidents are showing themselves the door

Tucker Carlson says he can no longer support the Republican Party. In that regard, he finds himself in familiar company. A growing faction on the populist Right -- including figures such as Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes -- has increasingly positioned itself in ...

Data center

Letters and a recent report in the TR made me feel there is a group in this community already planning to give away our future. It seems that we always see these reports pop up as a sudden event when some, not representing the citizens, already know it’s coming. That is not transparency in our community. I commend Marco Yepez-Gomez for having the forethought that we do not have enough information for making a wise decision for our community. I prefer a committee of computer professionalshttps://brockovichdatacenter.com/https://brockovichdatacenter.com/ and educators in overall ...

Trump's Three Retreats

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 ...

America at 250: The Threats to America's Greatness

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. ...

Data centers

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 economic development representative and Alliant Energy representative, both who stand to gain from a Data Center in Marshalltown. No one from water works was there nor any environmental specialists, nor any other cities with experience were there. Some questions the community deserves to have answered ...