To the editor, I’m seeing Red. (And that makes me happy!) As a conservative, I am happy to see Hillary Clinton as the Democratic front-runner. There isn’t a Republican challenger that couldn’t beat her and she isn’t firing people up in Iowa. As she limps from one scandal to the next, even Democrats are fed up and apathetic. Independent Senator…
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Hi, neighbor!
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Someone who lives down my street drives a honkin’ F150 (a half-ton Ford pickup truck) with no muffler. It is big and it sounds big, like a large, angry/hungry/horny beast from Dante’s seventh circle of Hell. It is impossible to ignore his coming down the road because his unmuffled engine interrupts conversation, hurts my ears,…
Read MoreIowa farmers commit $3.5 million to water quality practices
Cover crops, no-till/strip till or nitrification inhibitor DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey announced Aug. 28 that $3.5 million in cost share funds to help farmers install nutrient reduction practices have been obligated to farmers in each of Iowa’s 99 counties. The practices that were eligible for this funding are cover crops, no-till or strip till, or using…
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Letters to the editor dealing with the Sept. 8 school election will be posted through Tuesday, Sept. 1. Any letters received at GreeneCountyNewsOnline through Sept. 1 will be posted the day they are received. Letters can be sent to: news@greenecountynewsonline.com After Sept. 1, only rebuttals of specific issues or clarifications of facts about the bond issue will be posted.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Sam Harding
Dear Editor, For the last 22 years, I have had the privilege of serving our community as a member of the school board, and it has been an incredible joy to do so. It also gives me a unique perspective on the purpose of the bond issue that our board has put forth for your consideration.
Read MoreLetter to the editor – John Thompson
To the editor, It’s hard to see the best intentions of others when you disagree. We have a big decision to make in the next few days. Do we want to obligate a 20 million dollar bond to build new facilities?
Read MoreOne million – a big number, a lot of pages viewed at GCNO
While we all went about our business doing what folks do on a Sunday, GreeneCountyNewsOnline hit a milestone. According to Google Analytics, the 1 millionth page was viewed on your locally owned news source. A million anything is hard for me to comprehend. I know there are folks who have that many dollars – I never expect to have a…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Robert Holz and Kristi Holz Berg
To the editor, To date, no one has presented thisview point on the proposed school bond issue. It is more important than any issue already presented. Please consider this discourse. Everything man encounters has a cyclical nature, with economics being one of the most pronounced. Recent observers, having no interest in jading their reports, detect no meaningful economic recovery. An…
Read MoreTree Tracings
~by Valerie Ogren, Greene County Genealogical Society Meeting notice: The Greene County Genealogical Society will meet Saturday, Sept. 5, at 10 am in the basement meeting room of the Jefferson public library. Bob Tucker will share some of his family research “The Hoppes Family – Switzerland to America – Part 2.” If you have some family stories you would like…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – John Berg
To the Editor, Having finished reading GreeneCountyNewsOnline letters to the editor regarding the school bond issue I would like to get my two cents worth in. Previous letters to the editor have tried to present their opinions and uninformed economic analysis as fact. Starting a paragraph with the word FACT all in capital letters does not make it such without…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Karen Lawton
To the editor, I would like to share my support for the upcoming bond initiative for the Greene County School District. As a former board member, I am a huge supporter of consolidating our facilities into two locations and decreasing the amount of busing we are currently doing. We were told by school consultants several years ago that this was…
Read MoreThis frugal taxpayer supports the school bond issue
Thirty years from now as my children discuss what to have inscribed on my tombstone, one of them may well suggest “You can only spend each dollar one time,” to be put in small letters as a tagline at the bottom of a small tombstone. “You can only spend each dollar one time” is my budgeting mantra. That’s why I…
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