I am writing in response to Representative Randy Feenstra’s article “100 days of promises kept under President Trump.” Feenstra is from Hull and is our representative for district 4 including Marshalltown, Ames and gerrymandered all the way up to red Northwest Iowa. We are Iowa’s poor ...

The Day of Prayer event article on May 3rd & 4th Saturday, Sunday paper. It says Honor Guard in this article? It is not the Honor Guard, it’s the Color guard. A Color Guard presents and posts the flags; it’s a ceremonial function and often invited to civic, educational, religious, and ...

May 5-9 is National Teacher Appreciation Week! We are proud Bobcat parents! The Marshalltown Community School District provides educational opportunities second to none. The district is preparing our future leaders and they are doing a fantastic job! The Tupper children are thriving and are ...

Trump shared a photo of himself as the Pope. MAGA supporters have forced Trump upon America. They are complicit in this bizarre act by the President.

I am writing in response to “California wants to ban our bacon? Not on my watch” from April 21. Fortunately, there are certainly ways that farming conditions, and even the types of farms, can be transformed without removing the long-term livelihood and economic success of current meat ...

I had a nightmare last night that ICE was putting my neighbors into a van. Not that it should matter, but these particular neighbors are white US citizens. When I went to confront their captors, they asked if I would answer some questions and if I would get into their van to answer them. When I ...