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?
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One 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…
Read MoreThings fall apart
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Last Saturday, the combined fire departments of the county burned down a Jefferson house. Most firefighters are sworn to prevent and put out fires, but they also must have lessons in how to do this. So, once in a while, they practice on a condemned building, in this instance, an old house in Jefferson at…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Denise O’Brien Van
To the Editor: Since when did schools become economic engines? Voting to spend $20 million on school buildings in the expectation of more economic development in Jefferson is a weak hope. And if that development happens, it will occur only in Jefferson, not in other Greene County towns. Let the Greene County Development Corp. tend to development. Let the board of…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Marty Brenden
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the editorial posted by Colleen O’Brien. I am a former resident of Greene County, and wanted to tell you what I “know about Planned Parenthood.” Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States and the organization has been linked to many controversial activities including covering up statutory rape, child…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – John Thompson
To the editor, The Democrats continue their war on language. After all, if they convince people that it is bad manners to talk about bad liberal policies it is harder to fight them. It’s also thought control. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, travelled to the Iowa State Fair to speak at the annual Soapbox event.…
Read MoreRepublicans elect new leadership
DES MOINES – Iowa Gov. Terry E. Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds on Thursday congratulated new Iowa House Speaker-select Linda Upmeyer, new House majority leader Chris Hagenow, new House majority whip Joel Fry and new assistant house majority leader Zach Nunn following the House Republican caucus’ leadership election at the Iowa State capitol.
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