Why is it that when the city fails to meet a budget the property owners are always put on the hook? Maybe the city should learn to live within their means like us property owners have to. We don’t have the authority to tax people like the city does, we have to be responsible to pay our bills ...

It looks like some members of the Iowa House and Senate are finally listening to rural Iowans and our concerns about proposed CO2 pipelines. Because so many concerned citizens have turned out at meeting after meeting and hearing after hearing to show their opposition, some legislators seem to ...

The Marshalltown Public Library serves many purposes: meeting rooms, computer use, genealogy research, speakers and a myriad of services. Primarily, we go there for the large book selections for both adults and children. Magazines and newspapers are a small part of the total collection, and we ...

On page 3 of Sunday’s paper was a diagram of the Winding Stair Wind project. This project is on hold for now. It provides energy like coal. It is proposed for these counties — Marshall, Tama, Benton and Black Hawk. The cons for this project are 1. It affects farming 2. Natural life of ...

Regarding the article titled, Book banning: A red flag behavior. Friday March 3 page A4. The author lists 9 facts and curiously omits a tenth fact that “Public” Libraries such as the Marshalltown Public Library censor and ban popular, timely and pertinent reading material. The MPL ...

I grew up in Iowa for the first 18 years of my life. Deep down, I knew I didn’t just like boys from a young age — I liked girls too. I didn’t choose to be this way, it’s just who I am. Although I knew there would be some people who were supportive of my sexuality, I still felt that ...