9 candidates included on the ballot for the August 13 event DES MOINES- With the Iowa Straw Poll just three weeks away, The Iowa GOP State Central Committee today released the ballot for the 2011 poll, scheduled to take place August 13 on the campus of Iowa State University. The final ballot was decided at […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa- The 2012 Presidential Election is very quickly approaching. The Republican Candidates have been coming through Iowa and making their cases. The Republican field has been growing and may continue to grow with the possibility of several other Republicans throwing their hats into the ring. We at Osky News have decided to do candidate […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Presidential candidate frontrunner Michele Bachmann will headline a Mahaska County Republicans fundraiser dinner on July 23rd. Dinner will be served in the Chief Mahaska Room at the Student Union Building on the campus of William Penn University starting at 5:30 p.m. Steve Deace will be the first guest speaker. Deace, who was […]
Des Moines, IA- Rep. Leonard Boswell will have a member of his staff in Sigourney and Grinnell on Wednesday, July 27th, for open office hours. Greg Johnson, Boswell’s District Representative in the area, will be at: Drake Community Library from 1:30pm – 2:30pm Johnson will be on hand to work with individuals who are having […]
Lamoni, Iowa – U.S. Congressman and his family are only suffering from some scrapes and bruises, after an attempted home invasion at the home of his daughter in Lamoni, Iowa. At approximately 10:45 p.m. Saturday night, a man with a gun entered the front door of the farm house and assaulted his daughter Cindy Brown, […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa- The period to file nomination papers to run for Oskaloosa School Board has arrived. Filing takes place at each respective School District Administrative Office. The final date to file nomination papers is August 4th at 5 p.m. Candidates can access nomination papers by going to their School Administration Office or by going to […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – From late March to Late April, we ran a Presidential preference poll to see where Osky News readers stood on the then potential Presidential Candidates. The first poll turned up some interesting results. The majority of the current Presidential Candidates that we ran in the poll ended up in the bottom half […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Oskaloosa City Council met in regular session Monday. In what was a near record time meeting, the council considered several different items one of them being an ordinance establishing an ordinance for “nuisance parties.” Chief of Police Jake McGee said that the ordinance was the result of being called to several […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Tuesday was a very busy day in Iowa for politics. President Obama was in the Davenport area, Sarah Palin was in Pella and the Tea Party Bus made its’ stop in Oskaloosa. Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum was the scheduled speaker until some last minutes changes found him unable to attend. Mark Doland […]
(OSKALOOSA) — Rep. Guy Vander Linden (R-Oskaloosa) announced today that he will be running for re-election in House District 79. After redistricting, District 79 is comprised of Western Mahaska County and portions of Marion County, including both Oskaloosa and Pella. Rep. Jim Van Engelenhoven, who would have been in the same district, announced his retirement […]
