I was delighted to read in the paper that the Police Department is going to offer the Citizen Police Academy again in March of this year. I attended it several years ago with a friend and we found it to be an excellent opportunity and experience. In the ten week sessions you get a complete ...

The world has been full of violence against certain cultures. We are looking at the time when Israel had Judges, not Kings. In the early part of the Bible God worked to create these folks; but for what purpose? Apparently, he was looking to create Israel and the Jews, a nation of people who ...

The letters from Larry Ginter on Jan. 23 and Daniel Wacker on Jan. 24 convinces me they are suffering from sour grape syndrome. Their candidate lost. So their name calling and judgmental attitude is all they have left. Neither one of these guys wrote anything against Joe Biden’s open border ...

The overwhelming generosity of the people of Marshalltown​, helped provide joy to children in need through Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts this season. Across the U.S., the Samaritan’s Purse project collected 10.5 million shoebox gifts in 2024. Combined with those collected from ...

Have you no shame, Senator Grassley? I’m referring to your recent video defending President Trump’s total pardon of the Jan. 6 rioters. On the one hand, I wasn’t surprised that you would support President Trump’s pardons because you have been a staunch supporter of everything Trump ...

Watching the bizarre, the inauguration of a felon onto the seat of the U.S. presidency there can be no doubt the Chamber of the U.S. Capitol became the psychological rabbit hole. All the prayer invocations, political commentary, poems, songs, cheers, oaths, tales of grandeur were mere smoke ...