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Randy Evans was not duped

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 certainly didn’t dupe him. As the monthly meetings continued and policy was revised in April, it was obvious that the MPL board cared little for patron concerns. I suppose he read letters to the editor in which I pointed out excerpts from emails between the MPL director and State Library of Iowa ...

Dark money is the real issue

It was repugnant the description of caucus growers by professor Steve Corbin in his Nov. 24 article “2024 caucus primary and general elections controlled by extremists” and his omission of the true source of election corruption “Dark Money” exemplified by the Associated Press story “Nikki Haley Wins Backing From Powerful Koch Networks.” Professor Corbin generalized all caucus participants like my Democrat and Republican precinct held at Melbourne as “left-wing crazies and right-wing wackos.” I consider his analysis crazy and wacko! The Koch empire is rabidly ...

CO2 pipelines a terrible idea

The recent article submitted by the Des Moines Register stating the downside of CO2 pipelines was spot on. What a terrible idea! And an accident waiting to happen! Instead, we need more nature to take up CO2! What sense does it make to destroy what precious few remaining forests, prairies and wetlands to produce more (non green) ethanol — then make landowners put in these terrible things? Some people are even turning against farmers over this issue, which we should not do. Many farmers put in CRP and private woodland into permanent preserve (including yours truly) — tax free — a ...

Police reform is needed

Is there any other country in the world where police have been given so much “favored status” in their laws as they’ve been given here in Iowa? Our Republican lawmakers made police “immune from most lawsuits and 99 percent immune from prosecution.” Only the State AG can decide if police can be prosecuted. Is it any different in communist North Korea or in any tyrannical country? It should be that every violent police action must be tried before a jury of UN-screened common citizens. Some states passed “police reform,” but Iowa Trumpublicans went the very “opposite.” ...

Why has Randy Evans become a dupe?

Dear Mr. Evans, I live in North Carolina and am well aware of the self-serving John Worden from prominent friends in Marshalltown. They are prominent because they spend their time actually accomplishing positive projects for the town and they support Sarah Rosenblum. The irony is that John Worden is a Trumper who resents taxpayer money being allocated to libraries. Yet he expects the taxpayer to pay for subscriptions to magazines he already buys but wants shown in the library to further his private views. There are probably hundreds of mass circulation magazines on diverse subjects ...

What’s in a name?

When new life is born, someone chooses its name. Names are important because the child will be forever known by it. Parents and relatives spend many hours finding just the right word to reveal this child to the world. After all, this description will go with it forever. Who you are is the most important aspect of description. Scripture reveals that a good name is to be sought after! We must seek a good symbol because it will define us to the ages. The name we need to seek and emulate, Spiritually, is Jesus the Messiah. Searching and finding it will put us on the right track in life. Our ...