You reprinted the Iowa Capital Dispatch’s attack on the Marshalltown Library. The Dispatch article avoided the real issue: whether The Epoch Times should be in the Library. Instead, the Dispatch (and the T-R, by its reprint without comment) avoid the issue and blame the victim of ongoing ...

Farmers are the backbone of America. Today, many of our nation’s leaders have forgotten that truth. That’s why we need a President with a strong record of standing up for farmers – and Nikki Haley is that leader. How do I know she’ll fight for us? America watched her do it as ...

In the United States alone, 46,000,000 turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving. These 46,000,000 innocent animal lives were taken for no reason. Of the 245,000,000 turkeys killed in the U.S. in 2022, nearly all were raised in crowded toxic fume-filled sheds, and their talons and beaks were ...

We attended the Marshalltown Community Play titled “The Savannah Sipping Society” on Oct. 28. It was amazing! The four lead actresses had not only many lines to learn BUT add to the challenge using a Southern accent and to sing. Through the years, we have attended many plays of all types ...

John Worden is again complaining about the Marshalltown Library. He wants the Library to buy The Epoch Times, publication tied to a religious organization. Mr. Worden must realize that to place that publication in the Library would be an implicit endorsement of a religious organization. Mr. ...

Thank you for publishing my letters of Oct. 17 and 18 and Mayor pro tem Ladehoff’s rebuttal. Perfect examples of free speech in a free press. I stand by every word in the letters and represent citizens/patrons who resent the MPL attempts to prohibit library owners from benefiting from ...