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COLUMN: Goodbye Oskaloosa and thank you
By the time many of you read this column, my nearly two years with The Oskaloosa Herald will have ended.
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COLUMN: Question of the Week: Are you tired of politics?
We just completed the 2007 session of the Iowa Legislature in which the new Democratic governor and Democratic majority in both houses passed most of their agenda items.
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COLUMN: Question of the Week: Are you satisfied with your state lawmakers?
The Legislature has passed almost all of Democratic Gov. Chet Culver’s agenda items. The Legislature has passed items such as The Iowa Power Fund — a cornerstone of Culver’s agenda to promote alternative energy production.
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COLUMN: Legislative session the highest spending period in Iowa history
The 2007 legislative session is in its final hours as I write. While we have done some good things for Iowans, we have also done some things that I think we will find very troubling for Iowa’s future.
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COLUMN: Vennard College incident is shameful
As a Bible-believing, born-again, evangelical Christian, I look at the Vennard College incident and just shake my head.
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COLUMN: Due to storm debris, there’s no spring cleanup
Due to the massive branch pickup this spring from the ice storm in February, the City of Oskaloosa will not be conducting a spring cleanup this year.
- COLUMN: Question of the Week: Do you think our campuses are safe? Deranged student Cho Seung-Hui perpetrated the worst mass murder in American history Monday morning when he killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech University campus before killing himself.
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COLUMN: Legislative session a productive one
With just one week left this session, there is a lot going on at the Statehouse. My colleagues and I have done a lot of work so far, but have a lot of work to go in the next week.
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GUEST COLUMN: BPW celebrates Equal Pay Day
Every year in April, Business and Professional Women across America team up with the National Committee on Pay Equity for a national day of action promoting fair pay — Equal Pay Day.
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COLUMN: Education budget and access to high-quality preschool
We took several important steps to improve our local schools in this busy week in the Senate.
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