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Another Johnson County Fair has come and gone. I think it’s worth highlighting the sheer impact this fair has on the community and our youth.
4-H and FFA are organizations helping …
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By Ron Stutsman, Hills |
8/23/23 08:00 AM
Eliminating gestation crates will not only ease the suffering of mother pigs – it may also put some money back in the pockets of Iowa farmers.
The USDA funded a two-and-a-half year …
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Benjamin Williamson |
8/16/23 12:00 AM
Which important issues were supported by your state representative and state senator:
Help low-income people feed their families, or help pay state administrators high salaries?
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7/19/23 10:11 AM
Over 60% of Iowans support a woman’s freedom to choose what happens with her pregnancy, and I’m one of them.
Women and their loved ones need to be able to decide whether the …
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7/12/23 12:45 PM
By a majority vote of the Kalona Library board of trustees, the book “Gender Queer” retained a place in the library.
Did the vote represent the community?
If a majority of …
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6/7/23 09:57 AM
I am exasperated that House leadership is threatening to tank our economy to extract devastating budget cuts that target people experiencing poverty.
As a condition for allowing the U.S. …
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5/10/23 10:28 AM
A recent letter in The News admonished readers to get with it because “‘Woke’ is way dated, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DED) is the new buzz.”
The writer then …
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4/4/23 04:51 PM
Seeing Lone Tree on the front page of the newspaper last week and reading the article made me more upset with the City Council of Lone Tree.
IDRC performed a mini downtown assessment of Lone Tree. …
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3/28/23 02:29 PM
Thank you for your recent article, “Underperforming” (March 23, 2023). Finally somebody is calling attention to the fact that there are a whole lot of things wrong with Lone …
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3/28/23 02:27 PM
‘Woke’ is way dated, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is the new buzz.
Colleges across the country dedicate on average 45 staffers to DEI training, 1.4 more than history …
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3/28/23 02:25 PM
Senator Joni Ernst and the Republican caucus have learned a new word, ‘woke,’ and by golly they’re gonna use it.
In her recent piece in The Kalona News she used it five …
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3/17/23 04:04 PM
A zero-sum game is a mathematical representation in parlor games and economic theory of a situation that involves two sides, where the result is an advantage for one side and an equivalent loss for …
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1/16/23 04:54 PM
I am writing today to share my opposition to HSB1 and why you should be opposed as well.
Vouchers divert taxpayer dollars from public schools. HSB1 is harmful to our public school …
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1/16/23 04:53 PM
As a Kalona taxpayer, I’m against the school voucher proposal to provide private schools with (more) public funds. Nonpublic schools already receive public funding for transportation, …
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1/16/23 04:50 PM
The following information was submitted to the letter to the editor information form on thenews-ia.com:
first name: Lynn
last name: Gallagher
address: 1550Taft Ave NE
city: Solon
old …
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1/10/23 03:13 PM
