As we celebrate America's 250th anniversary, we gather as one community to express our gratitude to the veterans, service members, and military families whose courage, sacrifice, and commitment have helped preserve the freedoms we enjoy today. This celebration honors our nation's history, ...

During Marshalltown's recent discussion about data centers, I noticed something unusual. People were using the word moratorium often, but not always in the same way. Some speakers described a moratorium as a temporary pause that would give the city time to study an issue and develop ...

Every day, someone in America becomes a victim of fraud. Fraud comes in many forms — from investment fraud like Ponzi schemes to consumer fraud like identity theft. A 2015 True Link report on elder financial abuse estimated 1 in 3 Americans ages 65 and older are scammed, losing $36.5 ...

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 ...