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Opinion

Here today, ready for tomorrow

Columnists

At Marshalltown Community School District, we want every child to grow, learn, and build a bright future. When students come to school every day starting in preschool and all the way through 12th grade, they are not only learning but also making friends and building important skills for life. ...

Defining American citizenship

Columnists

ICE agents recently caught up with Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts. Originally here on a 1999 student visa, and under a deportation order judicially issued last year, the Guyanese national had continued living in the U.S. It’s true that the bureaucrat should be ...

End of time

Your View

In the book of Revelation, Earth-time will end, so says God! In Genesis 1:26 God is in the process of creating time and the Universe. Adam and Eve became sinners almost immediately. Since I was a baby, my family took me to church. The story of creation always intrigued me. In my heart I knew ...

Trump is right: Tech Visas are raw deal for US workers

Columnists

The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let’s savor the moment. The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in “specialty occupations.” The visa’s fans offer a mirror ...

Fear the walking stupid

Your View

The hysterical letter by DC Larson in the Times Republican reveals why we have to fear the walking stupid on mental health care. The walking stupid are voting against state and federal programs for the mentally ill to finance a truly cruel and greedy Big Beautiful Bill. Larson blames the ...

More questions than answers educates no one

Columnists

Ispoke to two groups in recent weeks, and people at both gatherings wanted to know about the work of the organization I lead, the Iowa Freedom of Information Council. If I had known then what I know now, I could have been more effective. I could have advised them to wait a week or two and ...