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Jan. 22 marks the anniversary of the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision. I pray that everyone, no matter what side of the issue they are on, take time to think about the impact that decision has had on pregnant women, fathers, grandparents and our American society. I think that we can all agree that that decision is a society-changing issue. Maybe after deep contemplation with an open mind you may realize that the United States Supreme Court decision did not help build a culture of life which...

Contributing Writer To Sen. Grassley, I am writing today to plead with you to please hold Donald Trump accountable by supporting impeachment. He has tried to throw democracy “under the bus” so that he can stay in power, with his false claims of an illegal election. You have to know that there is not one iota of proof of any election wrongdoing. Even your Republican governors and election officials have deemed these election proceedings as fair and just. Trump’s phone call to the Georgia ...

Contributing Writer Shame on the comments in the T-R Jan. 11 editorial “Worst day for Trump, Trumpists” by syndicated writer Pat Buchanan , thoughts by Rep. Dean Fisher on Jan. 12 and the Jan. 13 letter “Case of riotous chaos “ by Richard Hill of Marshalltown. Pat never mentioned the death of the policeman nor of the 80 plus who were injured. He shamefully claimed it was “malicious hyperbole, establishment propaganda” to compare the insurrection to 9/11 or to the British to burning ...

Contributing Writer After four years of playing Santa Claus with trillions in tax giveaways and trillions more spent on propping up farmers and corporations, you can hear Republicans already chanting “We have to cut back on spending. The debt is getting too big. We can’t leave a debt for our grandchildren.” After four years of putting up with Trump’s lies, his corruption, trying to conduct a coup by overturning the election, and finally, with Trump orchestrating a seditious insurrecti...

Contributing Writer I would like to join Iowa Democratic Minority Leader Todd Prichard in calling for all the Iowa Lawmakers to join together in unity to heal our state. Over 4,100 are Iowans dead out of 300,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, but the Iowa Legislature has no mask mandate. Governor Reynolds did not acknowledge Trump’s defeat in November until this month. State Representative Dean Fisher from Tama County remarked on his Facebook page, “We will survive. Remember our side has the ...

Contributing Writer Remove him from office, and bar him from ever holding office again. Support and vote for the censure and expulsion of those Senators and Representatives that contributed to the madness this past Wednesday especially those refusing to accept the results of an election that didn’t go their way. We do not need unity now, we need accountability. I do not want to be united with fascism. Appeasing fascists by not holding them and their enablers accountable will not make them go ...

Contributing Writer The big wigs got a taste of riotous chaos in the people’s house in Washington, D.C. and they didn’t like it. But when the riotous mobs attacked the state houses, police stations and burned down people’s businesses, that was OK with Pelosi and Schumer because they never came out and condemned it. These are two of the biggest hypocrites that ever walked the earth. If you let little riots go unchecked, why would you be surprised when bigger riots happen? Newsletter Im in...

Contributing Writer How can our nation reform matters we face with the two party system? George Washington warned the framers of such a system that will only create division. With an Independent President and an all Independent Congress we could actually make some real progress. Also, the words power and control should be abolished because politicians are irresponsible and abuse those terms when they are in those positions. Instead of being across the aisle we can have one group of elected of...

Contributing Writer I have been honored to serve as the First Ward representative to the Marshalltown City Council for the past three years. Thank you for putting your trust in me and I appreciate getting to know my constituents as we have worked together. We have worked through a tornado, a pandemic, a derecho, a new downtown master plan, a new Highway 14 master plan, rebuilding, starting fresh and moving forward. Marshalltown is ever-changing and I appreciate being a part of our vision for th...

Contributing Writer As we begin 2021, the Emergency Food Box Board on behalf of the volunteers and clients says thank you to the Marshall County community for the generous support during 2020 and the pandemic. The Emergency Food Box is so grateful for being supported by such a strong hunger-fighting community. Individuals, businesses, schools, churches and other organizations have supported the food box ministry as they often dug deeply into their pockets with great generosity. There has been a...