I would like to respond to John Clayton’s article on climate crisis. He said we must trust science to solve the climate problem. Can science rope the wind? Can they plug volcanoes? Can they tie a knot in the tail of a tornado? Can they stop the hurricanes from pushing water onto the shore? ...

Last summer, after statewide protests, Gov. Kim Reynolds promised action to address racial profiling by police as she signed the More Perfect Union Act. So, what has she delivered since then? Nothing. Reynolds and elected leaders from both parties have chosen to double down on anti-Black ...

John Clayton’s opinion piece about how we must act now to fight climate change is like most climate scare tactics. He lists “historic fires in California and Colorado, record rainfall flooding at Houston and river flooding in Iowa.” What year do we not have “historic” weather events? ...

I am not a resident of Marshall County. I have spent over half my working life in Marshalltown and retired from the sheriff’s office after close to seven years as a correctional officer. I was hired by Jail Administrator Steve Hoffman. His mantra to me as a new officer consisted of three ...

Science has been explaining to us, ‘we must act,’ for the last fifty years. Up until now, we’ve not been serious in mitigating and adapting to climate change. We have no time to remain passive observers; waiting for some automatic trigger, as a cue to act. Economic damage world-wide, ...

Have you noticed people living in the US stating that “America never was that great” By doing so they expose their lack of knowledge of American history. One great thing the U.S. did in the early 1960s was as part of the Alliance for Progress, pour $359 million along with $128,500,000 ...