~a column by Colleen O’Brien Since the recent presidential election, I’ve been weighing the efficacy of writing this mostly political column of mine. I have no exact idea who or how many read my column, but the issue lies purely with me. The issue is what’s good for my mental state and what’s good for the newspaper that publishes me.…
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View from my window – AI
A-1 Steak Sauce AI Artificial Insemination AI Artificial Intelligence Today the focus is on the third AI, Artificial Intelligence. We have a vehicle that applies the brakes if we get too close to another vehicle. It resists going out of the current driving lane to pass. My phone does spell prophesying and frequently provides a word that is not wanted…
Read MoreGov Reynolds delivers 2025 Condition of the State address
January 14, 2025 Following is Gov Kim Reynolds’ 2025 Condition of the State address as prepared for delivery: Madam President, Mr. Speaker, Lt. Governor, First Gentleman, legislative leaders and members, justices and judges, my fellow Iowans: It’s my honor and privilege to once again report on the condition of our great state from this chamber in our beautiful State Capitol.…
Read MoreThe high road or the low road
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Another new year, another resolution. Over the many New Years, my resolves dissolved within the minute. I don’t know this at that minute because the proof does not happen until the next day – first day of resolution. I forget to do it, refuse to do it, tell myself I’ll start tomorrow. This one, my…
Read MoreView from my window: 2025 and resolutions
This begins my second year of sharing View(s) From My Window with you. For those of you who provide feedback, whether positive or negative, it nourishes my energy level to know that you are reading and thinking. Thank you. As 2024 comes to a calendar close, we think about the plans for 2025. For many it seems like a fresh…
Read MoreWhat the publisher read in 2024
Hello, GCNO readers! Each January I like to share what I’ve read during the past year. This year two good reader friends and I began meeting monthly not as a book club, but to suggest books to each other. There are some books on my list that I probably would not have read without their suggestion, but I enjoyed them…
Read MoreRemember this?
GreeneCountyNewsOnline is inaugurating a new occasional feature with the start of a new year. Remember this? will bring back news posts from earlier years. This was initially posted Nov. 23, 2016. The Greene County supervisors are revisiting updating the heating/cooling system at the courthouse after supervisor Mick Burkett said a department head meeting last week got “rather heated” over the…
Read MoreView from my window: A Greene County Christmas tradition
~by Mary Weaver Sunday afternoon December 8, I completed one of my Christmas traditions by attending a concert by the Town and Country Band at Central Christian Church in Jefferson. Nestled into the sanctuary, amidst the beautifully decorated trees and the fireplace glowing warmth on the large computer monitor, I enjoyed listening to familiar and traditional Christmas melodies. The band…
Read MoreCongress members’ job is to help us; let them know what you’d like them to do
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I’m starting either a long haul or a rapid burn-out – contacting my federal representatives every day…. and if I do it three times a week I’ll feel okay about it. Writing to or calling my two Senators and my one House member about something I want them to do is all of our jobs…
Read MoreWhen words help
~a column by Colleen O’Brien The result of the recent election was not figured out by any of the dozens of pollsters before the vote. But after the vote, deducers by the dozens knew exactly what to tell the Democrats they did wrong. The whole lead-up to Nov. 5 was madness that took in millions of dollars to impress the voters, who…
Read MoreView from my window: Hunting for a favorite old recipe
The Christmas Season is here. Among the many activities it is a time for baking cookies. Cookies make memories. I have been searching for a recipe for the date rolled cookies my aunt made only at Christmas. I was at her house once when she was making them. It was a very tedious and monotonous job. Cutting the dates into…
Read MoreOf, by and for…
~a column by Colleen O’Brien It is Thanksgiving week. We are thankful that the election is over, and things seem kind of quiet . . . if we’re not watching, listening to or reading the dailies out of the Big House in DC – from which we are over-informed about distasteful appointees, hidden investigations of them, leaks about them, purposeful…
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