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Opinion

Vote Brodigan for Supervisor

Letters to the Editor

Do you believe in electing the most qualified candidate to do the job of safeguarding your tax dollars? If you do, the choice is clear in the November general election. Vote for Randy Brodigan for Tama County Supervisor. Randy is experienced in county affairs. He worked in Tama County for ...

Taxpayers entrust the County Treasurer Kathy Holtz

Letters to the Editor

As taxpayers, we entrust the County Treasurer to properly account for our tax payments and license fees. We also expect the County Treasurer to have the necessary education, experience, and objectivity to do the job to serve taxpayers. Independent candidate for Tama County Treasurer Kathy Holtz ...

Keep Amanda as your County Treasurer

Letters to the Editor

We are in late October, voting for a treasurer in Tama County. I am a registered Democrat, but my vote is for Republican Amanda Kriegel as Treasurer. She has proven she can do the job over the past six months, especially considering she came in with no instructions or records to follow. ...

Conflict with Annette Sweeney

Letters to the Editor

In the November 8th election, we will decide who will be our state senator for the next four years. The Republican candidate is Annette Sweeney of Iowa Falls. The Democratic candidate is Sam Cox of Grinnell. Bruce Rastetter, head of Summit Carbon Solutions, seeks to build a controversial ...

Support Fisher

Letters to the Editor

With the election right around the corner and a lot of focus on our educational system, I think it’s important to bring up the topic of Funding private schools with public dollars. People have dug their heels in on both sides of the issue in the past couple of years. Do we fund Private ...

Voting is a Civic Duty

Letters to the Editor

November 8th, we have a civil duty to vote. We must make our voices loud and clear that the America that we are living in is not the America that we desire. Failing to send a clear message by leaving this country in the hands of the current majority will have devastating consequences for ...

Pastor’s Corner: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall!

Local Columns

Most of us look in the mirror daily and assess the damage done by a night of apparently sleeping on our heads and perhaps falling out of our beds. At least, that’s been my personal experience. I remember my oldest sister getting a satin pillow to retain her beautiful hairstyle through the ...

Vote Kathy Holtz for Treasurer

Letters to the Editor

Do you believe in electing the most qualified candidate to do the job of safeguarding your tax dollars? If you do, the choice is clear in the November general election. Vote for Kathy Holtz for Tama County Treasurer. Kathy is an experienced accountant. She studied accounting at the ...

Vote Kathy Holtz for County Treasurer

Letters to the Editor

This November, the choice is clear as you vote for a new Tama County Treasurer. It’s time for nepotism in Tama County government to end. Cast your vote for the truly independent candidate, Kathy Holtz for Tama County Treasurer. On April 12, 2022, the Tama County Supervisors appointed Amanda ...

Is Senator Grassley really in touch with Iowans?

Letters to the Editor

According to Senator Grassley’s official government-funded website, he “has held at least one Q&A with constituents in each of Iowa’s 99 counties every year since coming to the Senate in 1981.” His now-famous “Full Grassley” is featured prominently in current TV ads. ...