While prohibitive costs and low commodity prices are due in part to the consolidation of the input providers and grain processors, the agricultural system is not the only consolidated industry negatively affecting citizens. Unfortunately, soaring prices throughout the economy are a symptom of ...
Farmers today face many challenges from high overhead costs and low commodity prices to the threat of climate change that may limit yields in the coming decades. However, a new revenue source may be on the way. Vertical, two-sided solar panels are being tested in farm fields at several sites. ...
House File 880 (Formerly HF 284) is a bill that seeks to prevent Iowa Libraries from being members of the Iowa Library Association and the American Library Association (ALA) by restricting funds to them if they are dues paying members of these organizations. Those dues are paid for by taxpayer ...
Well I took a week off. It is time to let Tama County citizen's know some facts. Three years ago, Tama County Against Turbines (TCAT) came to the Board of Supervisors and said they were petitioning us to stop the Winding Stairs Wind Project. The group told us that Salt Creek Wind was already ...
We have officially reached the half-way point of the 2025 legislative session. Last Friday (March 7) marked both the end of Week 8 and the end of the first Funnel Week. Funnel Week is a self-imposed deadline designed to winnow the pool of legislation up for consideration during a given year. ...
February was a very busy month for us Tama County Supervisors. We didn’t just get our feet wet but jumped right in! We started the month by finding out that we could not make payroll because the General Basic Fund was getting extremely low and that the Budget approved last year by the prior ...
This was week 8 of the session. This was the first funnel week, so we were busy with subcommittee and committee work to keep bills eligible for debate. Over the last several sessions the Republicans in the Legislature have done great work to lower income taxes. More recently, Iowans have been ...
Former Board of Supervisor, Bill Faircloth, is complaining about a problem that will not exist once the new supervisors get the already approved, livestreaming system up and running, which should be soon. Presently, I can log on to the Tama Livestock Auction and watch my cattle being sold ...
These Trump tariffs are something. People say this is how we fix the economy. Others say everything’s price will go up. If they happen, it will be somewhere in between. When one wants to encourage domestic production, tariffs make sense. One also must have the right policies in place to ...
I coached multiple sports when I was a teacher, and my teams were pretty successful. I coached in big games, had the opportunity to coach multiple ranked teams and even had the privilege of coaching basketball at the state tournament four times and golf at that same level five times. In fact, ...