I spoke last time about unemployment and the foreclosure crisis hitting America. These are terrible life altering events that are shaping our nation today. We have hunger in our nation, families that sleep on back porches, and their only means of survival at this point are the wonderful people that have stepped up to the […]
Much of America is feeling the pain of this down turn in the economy. Lay-offs, and closures are a normal in the vocabulary and don’t carry the alarm they would have 10 years ago. According to a recent Gallup poll, unemployment in America is 10.0% for mid-October. This is ever so slightly better than their […]
I recently sat down with the Reverend Bill Tvedt on the subject of Roy Moore coming to Oskaloosa to speak. Tvedt informed me that he is a Board Member of Peacemakers Institute. The Peacemakers Institute is a non-profit 501 C4 non-religious group from Sioux City, Iowa. The William Penn College Republicans are also working with […]
We at Oskaloosa News are always interested in your opinions. That is why we are now accepting letters to the editor. We will publish your letter on any day of the working week. We would ask you to please follow our letter to the editor guidelines listed below. Letters attacking an individual will not be […]
The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants on this web site do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of oskynews.org or official policies of oskynews.org. John Hesling Oskaloosa, Iowa 52577 TITLE: Judges are not above the Constitution The Iowa Constitution limits the power and authority of all […]
Montezuma faces a crossroads for it’s school system. The district is voting on an 11.5 million dollar bond issue. The current school is in need of repairs and some items brought up to code. I visited Montezuma today, a trip back in time of sorts for me. As a 1989 graduate of Montezuma my interest […]
It appears that our residents were correct about the Iowa/ISU game this past weekend. You voted in favor of Iowa with 29 residents (85%) voting yes and 5 residents (15%) voting no. On Saturday, Kirk Ferentz blew out Paul Rhodes and his Cylclones 35-7. This weeks question deals with the response to RV-TV. When residents […]
I recently wrote about unemployment, and how it is effecting Oskaloosa and the surrounding area. As news of the economy continues to get worse, are we prepared to live as they did during the Great Depression? Nonsense you say. Those that are still gainfully employed, see no reason to be scaring the population. But the […]
