~a column by Colleen O’Brien Women’s History Month is done with for another year. Women’s history is sketchy — so little written about so few over the millennia; always there but not talked about, the little woman. Or even talked to, in some eras. We know that women were around because the human race is still around.
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Letter to the editor – Dwight Smith
It is simply not “Iowa Nice” To the editor, I just came from Fareway. Two of the three marked handicap parking slots to the south side of the building were occupied by autos bearing no handicapped plates, the newer plate sticker or mirror hanger.
Read MoreTree Tracings
~by Valerie Ogren for the Greene County Genealogical Society Meeting notice: The Greene County Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, April 2, at 10 am in the basement meeting room of the Jefferson public library. Guess what?! You are all on the program! It’s fun to have a “Time of Sharing” because we always learn from each other. Please be thinking of a family story,…
Read MoreFrom the pol’s mouth to my daily diary
~a column by Colleen O’Brien The Great American Docudrama cum Soap Opera — “What Was that Orange Streak?” — must be a political PR guy’s dream: how to get people who don’t even vote to watch political forum/entertainment/reality TV . . .AND THEN REGISTER to VOTE.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Greene Co Extension & Outreach staff
Dear Editor, March 28 through April 1 is Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Week. We are proud that 2016 is Greene County Extension’s centennial year, with plans underway for a November celebration.
Read MoreQ & A: Clean energy fuels economy
with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: Why is an “all-of-the-above” energy policy good for the economy and national security? A: The United States has entered a new era of domestic energy production that is setting the stage for energy independence. Thanks to remarkable innovation and investment, American businesses and entrepreneurs are driving job creation and economic growth by tapping into…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Mike Coyne
Dear Editor: In the late 1970s it was an honor and pleasure for me to serve as the Director of the Agriculture Division of the Iowa Development Commission (IDC) under Governor Bob Ray and Jefferson’s own Del Van Horn who served as the Director of the IDC.
Read MoreTracing past lives
~a column by Colleen O’Brien When I was in high school, I went through a period of interest in past lives. I don’t remember how the interest came to me because I grew up with a dad who was, despite his native Irish feyness, a no nonsense, proof is in the pudding kind of thinker. I suspect my interest was…
Read MoreGreene County Dems hold county convention
Greene County Democrats gathered March 12 at the Jefferson municipal building for the annual convention with 62 delegates and guests present. Dale Hanaman, Greene County Democratic chairperson, led the meeting. The main business was to elect four delegates to the 4th Congressional District Democratic convention on April 30 in Ames.
Read MoreQ&A: National Ag Day
~with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley Q: What should non-farmers know about farmers? A: First, I like to point out what should be obvious. Food does not grow on the grocery store shelf or even at farmers’ markets. It’s planted, nurtured, fed and raised before being harvested, marketed and sold to consumers.
Read MoreWho’s to blame? All of us or just him?
~a column by colleen O’Brien When we were learning history in high school, I was either asleep or taught a scrubbed version. Except for Miss Price, who had us all researching the Holocaust in Hitler’s Germany, I was not exposed to the evils that men do. We learned nothing of white Europeans wiping out the natives in the New World;…
Read More2015 bipartisan index for Congress released
Grassley fifth, Ernst 38th, King 416th WASHINGTON – Sen Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ranks fifth in the Senate in a new bipartisan index of how much senators work across party lines on bill sponsorship and co-sponsorship. The rankings for 2015 are from the Lugar Center, led by former U.S. Sen Richard Lugar, and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown…
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