Running the gauntlet
Bobcats blank Hoover in a 9-0 shutout victory
The Marshalltown boys’ tennis team made quick work of a Des Moines opponent for the second time in three days, dispatching Hoover 9-0 in an ...
Daily Record, April 11, 2025
Marshall County Courthouse Court April 10 • Jamaine Anthony Simmons made an initial appearance on two counts of a violation of probation charge. The public ...
Daily Record, April 10, 2025
Marshall County Courthouse Court April 9 • Landon Michael Franke made an initial appearance on a absence from custody charge. Tyler ...
If you think eggs are expensive, wait till you see Trump’s Pentagon budget
Each year for Tax Day, my colleagues and I at the Institute for Policy Studies release a tax receipt so you can learn where your taxes are actually going. This ...
Marilynne Robinson, fiction writer and philosopher
I must be getting old. I find I can now sit down and read and enjoy high-brow intellectual, philosophical, God-consciousness books and get a lot ...
Trump limits tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises taxes on Chinese imports
Trump threatens more tariffs on China as global markets shudder over how much pain economy can take
Dow drops 1,600 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump’s tariffs cause a COVID-like shock
Builders and destroyers
Some people are builders, and others are destroyers. Some people want to help others by creating new opportunities, giving them new skills, or finding new ways to ...
Our new diplomacy
Tolerate our differences
Marilyn DeJong
Marilyn Joyce DeJong, 77, of Marshalltown, passed away on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at Harmony of Marshalltown. A visitation for Marilyn will be held on Tuesday, ...
Dale “Moe” Moore
Kyle Shaw
Trump signs executive orders to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a series of executive orders aimed at boosting the struggling coal industry, a reliable but polluting ...
