Letters and a recent report in the TR made me feel there is a group in this community already planning to give away our future. It seems that we always see these reports pop up as a sudden event when some, not representing the citizens, already know it’s coming. That is not transparency in ...

Recently I attended the City Council meeting where a moratorium on AI Data Centers was discussed. I am all for economic development, but I wish we could have taken more time to research and actually discuss as a community the concerns with Data Centers. At that meeting we heard from our ...

There was a time in human history when all we knew was what we learned, by listening to stories. This past Memorial Sunday, our pastor emphasized the importance of telling stories. Not only the Bible's story about the Kingdom of God, found in Matthew 28, but our own personal story. It appears ...

So, I will preface to say that I myself, have many views that could be considered by some to be, questionable, argumentative, leaning one way, or another. Or that my opinions may not matter because of mistakes I made, and so on. By saying this I mean that we all know someone that is offended by ...

We are looking forward to the 4th of July Fun Run which will be held at 13th Street and the Iowa Veterans Home. The event is free and will start promptly at 8 a.m. We encourage all ages as there will be two routes for participants to choose from, a short run as well as a 5K. Join the event, ...

In Friday, June 12's TR The Capital Dispatch reports that Trump says Lahn of Kansas is “much more Trump” than Feenstra. I have read a fair few of “Randy’s Roundups.” Not because I want to follow him, but because I wanted to campaign against him for the way he’s mismanaged Iowa’s ...