RAGBRAI Unless you live under a rock, you should know that RAGBRAI is coming to town this coming Wednesday, doubling our population for one day. There will be some street closures so if you are working, leave a little early. The Marshalltown RAGBRAI group is still looking for volunteers. ...
Senate File 2472 was centered around providing taxpayers what they care about: Property Tax Relief. When SF2472 became law on May 18, 2026, under Governor Reynolds signature, Iowa stated that it was property tax legislation that will provide “$4.2 billion in property tax relief to Iowa ...
When your home state is repeatedly rated as one of the worst in the country for property tax burdens, something has to change. When you are consistently hearing from Iowans worried about property taxes year after year, something has to change. And when the same entities complaining about ...
Property tax reform has been a pressing issue for years. Iowans are facing higher costs on nearly every front and are desperate for relief. Property values have skyrocketed, and property taxes have risen along with them, while our cost of living keeps rising by the day. While every ...
I see where Iowa State's Lake LaVerne has been drained and they are dredging it to make it deeper. (I don't know why they call it a lake. Being from rural Iowa, I would call it a pond.) In the process of dredging Lake Laverne they have found all kinds of odds-and-ends of stuff like it was a time capsule of Iowa State University. They found an old cannon, bicycles, a bowling ball and enough junk to fill a scrapyard. The cannon they surmise may have been used to celebrate touchdowns at nearby Clyde Williams' Field, and then stolen from Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity in the early seventies. The ...
Societies, like individuals, can become sick. And, as with individuals, the symptoms point to the pathology. The shocking acceleration of antisemitism in our country is a sign that something is very wrong. Antisemitism is a classic symptom of a society that has problems and is looking ...
