I am writing to share my view on data centers and because I believe Marshalltown has an important choice in front of us. And I believe we should choose opportunity. For generations, Marshalltown has been a community that makes things. We have built products that are used across the country ...
American democracy succeeds by trial and error. Our history is littered with flaws and mistakes, corrected and amended, re-broken, and fixed again, often thanks to citizen input. That is why local government – bottom up, grassroots democracy – provides the best opportunity for ...
Dear Editor, Last election season for District 52, Republican big money ran out Representative Sue Cahill through negative ads in which her policies were misrepresented as scary, and unlike the values of District 52. Thus, David Blom was elected. I wrote to him about my concerns about the nitrates in Iowa’s water and our high cancer rates which killed my brother, but I got no response from him. I wondered what values he represented in Des Moines, but instead of using his political ads to inform us about what he accomplished, he is again on the attack. I looked on Ballotpedia.org ...
Succession planning and public celebration typically accompany executive retirements. They provide for an orderly leadership transition and public acknowledgment of a job well done. So, two simple questions arise whenever top government employees leave their jobs in hastily announced ...
For many people, the words “chronic absenteeism” were never heard when they were growing up and going to school. Whether you attended school in the United States or another country, going to school and taking attendance were simply part of the process. Today, chronic absenteeism has become ...
In the "Terminator" movie series, the artificial-intelligence system known as Skynet is given control of the nation's nuclear weapons and uses it to try to destroy humanity. One reason that apocalyptic scenarios involving AI are implausible is that, having seen how that particular movie ...
