Don’t taunt, trash talk or jeer. It’s never worked for me, in fact it usually backfires. I found the best approach, especially in sports, when someone trash talked me, was to just be quiet, accept it for what it was, trash talk, then go ahead and blow them out of the water by good ...
When disaster strikes, whether a tornado, fire, burglary, or other insurance-covered peril, homeowners and renters often find themselves overwhelmed by the loss and the claims process. One critical step an insured can take to prepare for such situations is to create a comprehensive home ...
Here at the Times-Republican, we do our best to put out a newspaper full of local news, sports, briefs and opinions six days a week and cover as much as we possibly can within Marshall County and our greater coverage area. We’re also Iowans and Marshalltonians, and we know too well that ...
The Iowa Legislature wants to keep sexually explicit materials out of the hands of minors. That seems like a reasonable enough goal, but lawmakers are going about it wrong. A bill moving through the Iowa House, House File 274, wants to scrub any potential obscenity from public schools and ...
Israel’s assault on Gaza, with backing from the United States, has created one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet. Now Israel is violating a hard-won ceasefire deal by refusing to admit all aid into Gaza. The Israeli government also passed legislation recently to outlaw UNRWA, ...
When Donald Trump and JD Vance roughed up Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, their back-alley bullying was ... unpresidential, to put it politely. Tony Soprano would have displayed more diplomatic finesse than Trump, and the mobster’s henchmen always had more dignity than Vance. To ...