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Mayors endorse Mark Campbell

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Mayors representing towns across District 2 in Webster County are collectively sharing our endorsement for the re-election of Mark Campbell for Webster County Supervisor. The mayors for Mark Campbell include those leading the towns of Barnum, Callender, Dayton, Gowrie, Moorland, Lehigh, and Otho. This incredibly strong showing of support is reflective of Supervisor Mark Campbell’s active role in supporting all of our rural communities in District 2. From ensuring quality of life projects are achieved to advocating on behalf of infrastructure or economic development ...

Endorses Campbell, Lloyd

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: I’m telling folks to re-elect Mark Campbell to the Webster County Board of Supervisors. I worked with him on the board and I can’t say enough about how much he’s done for us over the last 12 years. One of the biggest parts of the job is keeping the budget in line and Mark’s been great at working with department heads to make sure it’s where it needs to be while still keeping taxpayers in mind. I didn’t have to deal with the new budget restrictions, but Mark did and he made sure we followed the new rules and showed the state legislature that we were ...

COVID influences view of election

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Flash back to March 2020 ... Christina and I were seven months into married life in a new city. Things couldn’t have been much better and spring was finally starting to spring. Then Rudy Gobert got COVID and everything started to shut down, especially out there on the East Coast where older adults were dying in droves. But that wasn’t the worst part — the worst part was having a president who was continually misinforming the public about the severity of the disease and contradicting experts at the CDC. The mental effort and cognitive dissonance of attempting to ...

Biden-Harris more effective at arming our enemies than our allies

Local Columns

Products arrived damaged and moldy. Equipment was unserviceable and poorly packaged. The shelf life on some items already expired. Other parts were delivered in the incorrect packaging. These aren’t poor product reviews for a shady seller left by dissatisfied customers on Amazon, but rather the shocking findings of an investigation into equipment supplied to Taiwan by the Department of Defense conducted by the Pentagon’s own Inspector General (IG). Taiwan is a key U.S. partner and manufactures most of the world’s advanced semiconductors, which are crucial to the United ...

Support Coats for Kids

Editorial

It’s hard to imagine facing an Iowa winter without a warm coat. Sadly, some area kids could be confronted with just that prospect if their families are facing a challenging economic situation. Fortunately, however, through the combined efforts of Shimkat Motor Co. and the Community Health Center of Fort Dodge, many of these young folks will have warm coats and other winter wear as the colder, wintry days arrive. This joint project — called Coats for Kids — accepts donations of new and gently used winter coats, along with hats, scarves, mittens and snow boots. All sizes are ...

Connect the dots

Letters to the Editor

To the editor: In the 1950s, Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy became infamous for accusing hundreds of members of the Truman administration of being Communists. After being censured by Congress for bullying witnesses on national TV, McCarthy’s immense popularity evaporated overnight. In the next three years, McCarthy drank himself to death. The American Heritage Dictionary describes McCarthyism as: 1. The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence; and 2. The use of methods of investigation and accusations regarded as ...