Letter to the editor – Sandra Miner

To the editor, I find that many folks read the Greene County board of supervisor minutes. I would like to set the record straight as many folks approach me and my family about my employment with Greene County. The information that they are reading is regarding a volunteer job. I go to Carroll to attend these meetings and there is…

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Russian reading requires stamina

~a column by Colleen O’Brien Reading a couple of current books on the history and politics of Russia for a project, I am learning about Vlad the Putin and Vlad the Impaler (15th-century prince of Romania the Russians wrote about because his impaling deeds were so horrible people felt drawn to them in order to be horrified).

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Letter to the editor – Jefferson Matters board

Letter to the Editor, Jefferson Matters: Main Street’s board of directors on behalf of our committees wants to applaud the Jefferson RAGBRAI committee for their extraordinary work to showcase Jefferson on July 23. The signage, hospitality, vendors, entertainment, buses, and campgrounds gave the positive impression of not only the downtown but the entire community.

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Letter to the editor – Dick Finch

To the editor, Wild Rose asks for city to build $1.4 million dollar frontage road so it will enhance the value of their property – Drees property and Reuter Farms property. In 1976 I sold property at the corner of Mulberry and Hiway 30 to Binns Equipment for a John Deere dealership.

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Bigglyness and weeniness

~a column by Colleen O’Brien I am surprised, in a kind of fearful way, when I see the faces and hear the tenor of the voices at a midterm “rally.” These faces and voices belong to people whose chosen candidate won the prize, and they are this angry? They are hateful in visage and voice. What would they be like…

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Are you a tiny-house person?

~a column by Colleen O’Brien Upon visiting a house advertised as a “tiny house” in a neighborhood near me, it dawned on me that long ago my husband and I had become tiny house folks without knowing it. The term wasn’t around when we started out, so we thought of ourselves as merely living in smaller houses than most people…

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The press and the prez

~a column by Colleen O’Brien “There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.” This is a quote from Robert F. Kennedy in 1964, speaking to the fact that his brother Jack…

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Teens brave the status quo

~a column by Colleen O’Brien “Here are the rules,” said the teenager at the podium. “No rudeness. No backstory of your own. No revealing of your party affiliation. Questions only.” So started a town meeting conducted by students from Lakeland, Florida’s Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School on the subject of gun laws. On Valentine’s Day, a shooter entered that school…

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