AARP in the September issue of their paper had an article called “Our teens are struggling with depression and anxiety.” Psychiatry put a lot of the blame on a pandemic fueled by disruptions. They also said suicide rates increased 53 percent since 2010. The article said the number one ...

Inspired by Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, I have asked Gov. Kim Reynolds to call an emergency special session of the Iowa legislature for the purpose of legalizing MDMA assisted therapy in Iowa. Although opioids, cocaine and methamphetamine are all legal for medical use, MDMA is not. This ...

Editor, 40 plus years ago there was about a 20 year wait to get a golf cart in one of the Legion golf cart sheds, but if you lived 8.8 miles away from the Legion entrance you could bring your golf cart on and pay a trail fee. After years of waiting many young golfers went to join nearby golf ...

Attorneys and our police chief can’t comment on the recent Taser incident by an MPD officer, but I certainly can and will. Perfect example here why the police force and the media get bad reputations. The Times-Republican prints a story smearing a senior officer’s name when all the facts ...

Regarding the lengthy article “How many of her emails were classified? Actually, zero,” the writer skirts around the fact that although FBI director James Comey said publicly that Clinton mishandled classified information, he declined to recommend prosecution, and the Justice Department ...

South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham is running his mouth proclaiming that if Trump is convicted for mishandling top secret documents there will be rioting in the streets. Well it is for sure like Trump he won’t be in the streets leading the pack. Like Trump he is an agitator, all bark. ...