To the editor: We didn’t elect “Crooked Hillary” but, instead the people chose “Traitor Trump”. It is obvious that he is in “Thug Putin’s” pocket. Devious Donald prefers to take Putin’s word over the facts from our own intelligence agencies. Iowa Senators Grassley and Ernst issued weak, cowardly comments. They are terrified to stand up to the liar-in-chief.
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Who’s got the answer?
~a brief column by Colleen O’Brien Is there a way for the world to come to and pay attention? It seems most of us need to be led and there are just enough among us who get off on leading. Mutual agreement would be a pleasant solution, but that’s difficult to establish even in small groups like families, book clubs,…
Read MoreReasons to be happy on the Fourth of July
even while there are reasons to make you feel like you have a low-grade fever ~a column by Colleen O’Brien The older you get the less birthdays mean. Except if you’re a country. Today, the Fourth of July, 2018, is our country’s 242nd birthday (if you count from 1776; if you count from the Declaration of Independence, it’s 241).
Read MoreWhy I’m Running as a Libertarian
~by Thomas Laehn This November, I will be a candidate for Greene County attorney. And, against the advice of family and friends, I am running as a Libertarian. Many people for whom I have great respect encouraged me to run as a Republican or a Democrat instead. To run as a Libertarian, they argued, all but guaranteed an opponent, who…
Read MoreGrassley answers questions about immigration
~by Sen Charles Grassley (R-IA) Q. What needs to be done to fix our nation’s immigration policies? A: By all accounts, the current immigration system is broken. The last major overhaul was adopted 32 years ago in 1986. Unfortunately, the Immigration Reform and Control Act did not live up to its promises.
Read MoreCan you tell the real from the fake?
~a column by Colleen O’Brien The term news literacy is defined as the ability to use critical thinking to judge the reliability and credibility of information, whether it comes via print, television or the Internet.
Read MoreTurning darkness into light
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I just finished, for the fifth time, a book titled The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The only other book I’ve read as many times is Gone with the Wind. Four of those reads happened between seventh grade and 12th grade, the final read when I was 20 or so. It took me…
Read MoreMiller, 20 AGs demand end to cruel, illegal immigration tactics
The deliberate separation of children and their parents is wrong, letter says Des Moines — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and 20 other attorneys general called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to end the cruel and illegal actions against children and families lawfully seeking asylum in the United States as they seek protection…
Read MoreLetter of thanks – Ram soccer players, parents
Letter of thanks, The first Greene County boys and girls soccer teams and their parents would like to write a sincere letter of appreciation to coaches Carl Behne, Marilyn Tasler, Chad Black and the other helpers.
Read MoreA new heyday for Jefferson
~a column by Colleen O’Brien It is the middle of June, and Jefferson is lush with spring. It is a rain forest of fifty shades of green, flowers blooming in the jungle, birds crazy with song dawn to dusk. On the edge of town the corn is two feet tall, and people are as busy as the environment – prosperity…
Read MoreLetter to the editor – Dick Finch
Re: New jail Spend, spend, spend, and really soon property taxes will be out of sight and out of affordability. They’re bad enough now – but wait! Sheriff Jack Williams has asked for a new jail. $12 million because he says 90 percent of the crime in Greene County is fueled by drug use of meth and marijuana. Sorry Big…
Read MoreMaking mincemeat of a commentarian
~a column by Colleen O’Brien I’ve been using a computer I haven’t turned on since the early winter of 2017. I scanned through my documents from then to see what I’d saved from a season of unbelievable presidential campaign and its aftermath. Several of the columns I published at that time had to do with a man running for President…
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