As a lifelong Iowan and proud representative of one of the most productive agricultural districts in the country, I will always stand up for Iowa farmers and our rural communities. Since my first day in office, I have been committed to delivering real results for the farmers who feed and fuel ...
Dear Editor, Iowa’s significant public health crisis, high cancer rates and polluted waters don’t bother Representatives Blom and Fisher as they are questioned about the upcoming legislative session in the TR. In their final comments Blom asks people to contact him, which I have done, and he has not responded. Even Grassley at age 92 responds to letters. Fisher just gaslights about spending, book censorship and making Iowa a place to raise a family. My family is tired of cancer. Many things are more important than censoring library books.
The silent illness. The quiet struggle. The painful journey. The tragic end. Day in and day out, we are witnessing the increasing number of lives lost to suicide. Even in rural and tight-knit communities like Marshall County, we are not immune from this public health concern. The ...
On behalf of this community, all Iowans and our Nation, I extend sincere condolences to the families of Staff Sgt. William “Nate” Howard and Staff Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar on their unimaginable loss of life only one short month ago. On December 13 while Americans watched football ...
Louisville Urban League President Lyndon Pryor said something at the organization’s annual Impact Luncheon last month that has been stuck on replay in my head ever since. I’m paraphrasing here, but he told the crowd, “If you’re wondering what you would do in the face of injustice, you’re doing it right now.” We find it easy to judge people in history who seemingly stood by while their neighbors disappeared and Nazi Germany took hold. We wonder how we would have reacted during the Civil Rights Movement when Jim Crow laws were being challenged. We feel certain that we would ...
One gift that 2025 gave us is clarity: President Trump’s rhetoric bears no resemblance to the reality of what he is doing to our country. We learned who really matters to Trump and the Republicans running Congress — the billionaire tech lords and big corporations that got huge tax cuts ...
