In a press briefing on November 20, 2023, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated “…, according to the American Farm Bureau, the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner fell this year.” While this fact, in itself, may be true, this is not the whole story. The American Farm Bureau ...

Kudos to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church for bringing wonderful concerts to Marshalltown. The music Saturday night by the Ames Chamber Artists was a fabulous way to celebrate the Christmas season. The acoustics of the 150-year-old sanctuary are amazing. Thank you, St. Paul’s, for giving us this ...

I am surprised that I have not seen a single person write an editorial point of view concerning the article printed in the TR, on Nov, 30, “THE PENTAGON JUST CAN’T PASS AN AUDIT. Congratulations to our T-R staff for printing this and us all aware as to how terribly corrupt our Pentagon is ...

It was unfortunate that Mr Grady went ‘off on a tangent’ recently in an unfair attack on Mr. Worden as well as brazenly mis-representing a well-known & respected globally-printed newspaper. Perhaps Mr. Grady should have taken Mr. Worden’s invitation personally by coming into the ...

A letter to me was published on Dec. 5 in the Times-Republican. I will not answer that letter because it contained false information without evidence that the writer received freedom of information correspondence between the Marshalltown Public Library and the State Library of Iowa. I don’t ...

Dear Mr. Lewis, Randy Evans, Columnist, and representative of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council chose to write his first of two articles in March after reading Marshalltown Public Library board meeting reports in this paper. As far as I know, no one asked him to write them and ...