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Scott Van Veldhuizen – Oskaloosa School Board Candidate 2025

Oskaloosa School Board Candidate Scott Van Veldhuizen

Please share a little about your family and how long you have lived in the Oskaloosa community. I am married to my wife, Sandy, who is a high school math teacher. We have five children, four of whom graduated from Oskaloosa Schools. Three of our children are married, and we are blessed with two grandchildren […]

James Feudner – Oskaloosa School Board Candidate 2025

Oskaloosa School Board Candidate James Feudner

Please share a little about your family and how long you have lived in the Oskaloosa community. 

 I’m James Feudner and my family has lived in Oskaloosa for about 9.5 years. I have been married to my wife Jenny for 27 years. We have 2 adult children that both graduated from the Oskaloosa High […]

Tasha Janssen – Oskaloosa School Board Candidate 2025

Oskaloosa School Board Candidate Tasha Janssen

Please share a little about your family and how long you have lived in the Oskaloosa community. 

 My husband and I have lived in Oskaloosa for approximately eight years, but since my entire extended family lives here, I’ve always felt like I was raised in this community. Oskaloosa has truly always felt like home. […]

Upcoming federal food assistance pause intensifies shutdown fight

Canned foods on grocery store shelves. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch)

by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 27, 2025 WASHINGTON — The stakes of the ongoing government shutdown rose Monday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture doubled down on its position that food benefits for November could not be paid and a union for federal workers implored lawmakers to pass a stopgap measure. As the […]

Temperatures normal across Iowa, but conditions dry as harvest season wanes

A farmer harvests soybeans Oct. 7, 2025 near Dike, Iowa. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch)

by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 27, 2025 Temperatures across the state of Iowa were near the climatological normal, though precipitation was below average as parts of the state slid into dry conditions for the close of harvest season, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. The IDALS weekly weather report […]

Iowa delegates urge administration to prioritize trade deal for soybean farmers 

Soybeans are harvested from a western Iowa field. (Photo by Jared Strong/Iowa Capital Dispatch)

by Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 27, 2025 Iowa lawmakers U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, along with U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisconsin, urged a “coordinated action” across the Trump administration to prioritize soybeans in a trade deal with China and to finalize renewable fuel guidelines. The GOP lawmakers addressed […]

Iowa Weekly Weather Summary Oct. 20-26, 2025

Iowa Department of Agriculture

DES MOINES, Iowa (Oct. 27, 2025) – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship’s weekly weather summary released today. Information from the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report, which is released weekly by the United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service from April through […]

USDA won’t shuffle funds to extend SNAP during shutdown, in about-face from earlier plan

Funding for federal food assistance is expected to halt starting in November due to the government shutdown. (Photo by Lance Cheung/U.S. Department of Agriculture)

by Shauneen Miranda and Ariana Figueroa, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 24, 2025 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a memo Friday the agency’s contingency fund cannot legally be used to provide food assistance benefits for more than 42 million people in November, as the government shutdown drags on. The position is a reversal […]

Social Security payments to rise 2.8%, a tick below inflation rate

Social Security Administration

by Jacob Fischler, Iowa Capital Dispatch October 24, 2025 The 75 million Americans who receive Social Security benefits will see a 2.8% increase in payments next year, the Social Security Administration said Friday. The cost-of-living adjustment is just below the inflation rate of 3% announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, also on Friday. The adjustment is […]

Iowa Youth Softball Team Wraps Up Season with International Friendships

Oskaloosa Youth Softball Team Builds International Friendships Through Global Exchange. (photo provided)

Musco Sponsors First Annual Global Youth Sports Exchange Program to China OSKALOOSA, IA – A youth girls softball team from the Oskaloosa, Iowa, area is finishing up their season with international friendships. These 11 players, along with their coaches and families, traveled to Shanghai, China, earlier this year to participate in the inaugural Global Youth […]

             

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