You’d marched a long way, Johnny, before I met you at a place called Gettysburg. How you lived coming across that big open field I’ll never understand; the artillery cut huge gaps in your lines, but on you came. You had fired your one round, and on you came with only a bayonet to face me ...

Editor, Thank you for publishing the Associated Press article Jan.6 page A2 titled “Scientists explore Thwaites, Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier.” The article noted that the US and UK will jointly spend $50,000.000 (fifty million dollars) and “more than two months” ...

Can anyone help me figure out the Iowa Republican senators’ and representatives’ approaches to public education? On the one hand, they express concern about the shortage of teachers, the number leaving the profession, and the difficulty of adding and replacing staff. On the other hand, ...

I read in a recent edition of the T-R about the State House passage of House File 2128, requiring that 50 percent of the gas we buy be supplemented with 15 percent ethanol. In checking the manuals of the cars, motorcycles, snow throwers and lawn mowers I own, as well as checking with the ...

If you’ve ever thought that you should get involved in politics—here’s a chance for you. The Marshall County political parties will Caucus on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. When I was in high school government class, I was told that if you don’t participate in a political party or vote in a ...

For the past several years, my body has booked places where it thinks I should be, in a hospital with some major body malfunction. Since my gallbladder was removed last year, this year, there was a left-over stone hiding and causing infection near my liver. I had about two weeks to lay around ...