While driving by the North Tama school building recently, I saw the new addition being constructed on the northeast-eastern side of the school. The wave of construction will help push the school forward. This is like all the other additions to the school which have been made over the years. ...
For those who do not know, Douglas Avenue and the road it turns into, Euclid Avenue, is one of the major thoroughfares of the Des Moines metro. Douglas runs from the western part of Waukee, turning into Euclid in the middle of Des Moines, before ending on the east side of Des Moines at the road ...
It has been a while since I have written about it, but the Robinson-Patman Act is one of my favorite laws. It prevents price discrimination. This means a truckload of potatoes that is being delivered to the grocery store in Traer is the same price as the truckload of potatoes being delivered to ...
One of the anticipated events of spring is the arrival of migrating monarch butterflies, but in recent years their number has declined greatly. Much of this loss has been caused by a great reduction in the abundance of milkweeds, the required food of monarch larvae, as a result of intensive ...
April has been a great month of warmer temperatures and finally some much needed rain! The budget development process is now behind us for the year, but we will continue to monitor it as the year progresses. Our Supervisor meetings are running smoothly and the agendas are still very full. You ...
Telegraph Note: This column will publish in next week's print edition of the newspaper. If there is one thing that continues to stand out to me, it is how lucky I am to work alongside such great people. The staff at the Sheriff’s Office make my job easier every single day, and I cannot ...
Editor's Note: Chris Behrens submitted his resignation as interim Tama County Zoning Administrator/Weed Commissioner on Wednesday, April 30. His resignation is set to be addressed during a Friday, May 2 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. Well, our Board of Supervisors has done it again. ...
When you have an issue, you go straight to the source. This is what I did recently by taking a trip to Washington D.C. I went to receive advocacy training and advocate for family farms at the expense of the Iowa Farmers Union (IFU). Done through their national organization, this was the first ...
Well, it is Monday April 21. Our great Tama County Board of Supervisors just proved Tama County citizens are not in their best interest. Zoning Administrator Bob Vokoun was on the agenda today and ended up giving his notice of resignation effective May 1, 2025. Our wonderful Board accepted his ...
It is pure poppycock when people ascribe that the way things are is the way things must be and will always be. There was a time in the mid-20th century when society did not let few companies gain too much control at the expense of others. Unfortunately, public schools are hollowing out, food ...