The Homeless Task Force has arranged for a few “Warming Centers” and some spots for overnight sleeping for Marshalltown and Marshall County’s homeless population. Volunteer monitors have been working for the past couple of weeks. They are getting burned out and could use a break. We ...

As a new Board that will be installed into office January 1, 2025, we would request the current Board to refrain from appointing new members to the zoning board of adjustment to replace Todd Sebesta and Kurt Kelley and any further appointments. Todd resigned in mid-November 2024. Kurt resigned ...

I was told in no uncertain terms that because May St. is platted at 66 feet wide myself and the other homeowners on May Street do not own the size of land shown on our deeds. It is more than an easement to access the property; it is actually city property. That means several homes on the ...

I don’t understand why so many are surprised and appalled at the election results. Ever since the insidious scheme of Corporate Capitalism was concocted, the highest goals embedded into the system have always been for individuals to acquire great wealth, power, and unobstructed control, ...

The latest Worden salad litany is a Who’s Who of the Marshalltown citizens who are responsible for most of the intellectual fiber of the community. Little Johnnie hates most of them and accuses them of yelling at or ignoring him, from the mayor, the city council, the library board to the ...

You won the election. Governing a very divided nation will be much harder. Fifty percent of voters did not vote for you. The American public is as polarized as at any time in our nation’s history. You would increase that polarization by ignoring the fifty percent of Americans that voted for ...