I recently read an article about things we once used that are now obsolete. I shared it with some friends, and we added several more. See how many of these you can recall.
Oil company profits are through the roof. Natural gas prices are rapidly rising.
CBS News reported last week that Exxon Mobil had $17.85 billion in profits in the second quarter of this year. Chevron made a record $11.62 billion. Shell also broke its profit record.
K/PACEDC Leadership training sessions are back and we are ready to take registrations! We had great attendance and participation in our leadership sessions last year which offered a series of career and personal training that covered team building, communications skills, customer service and building better relationships.
Walking toward nearby Pompeii ruins by 8:30, our first stop was to cash a Traveler’s Check for Italian lira. We did a little shopping on the way but only bought a guide book to the Pompeii ruins so we could take our time – we wanted to absorb and learn about what happened there without being rushed..
At a boarding house in Des Moines recently a man without hands and only a stub of an arm, was eating with a fork strapped to the stub. When asked, “Who do you vote for, sir?” he promptly replied: “It is not necessary to ask how a man will vote at this election when you know he has lost both arms in defense of his country. Soldiers will all vote for Grant.”
The Iowa Legislature and Republican Governors have been starving our public schools financially for some time. When you see that the 2022 Iowa Legislature added $186 per pupil or 2.5% to Supplement State Aid for public schools, that may seem like a lot, but during the years from 2005-2011 under Democrat Governors, schools averaged 3.5 %. During the latest Terry Branstad-Kim Reynolds era, schools have received anywhere from 0% to the current 2.5 %.
Get a job. Those three words are often used in a condescending way, but they are maybe more important today than they have ever been.
Our nation’s unemployment rate in June was at 3.6 percent. In Iowa, it was 2.6 percent. Those are very low numbers, which means the pool of people to hire from is low, too.
Throughout the county people are preparing for the upcoming fair. Before you go, enjoy these photos from the Kossuth County Fairgrounds from 1913. The original racetrack went right up to the Floral Hall.Photos courtesy of the Kossuth County Historical Society.
Leaving Itri and heading south toward Napoli, we passed rolling hills with their vineyards, fruit orchards, and olive groves and flat farmland with wheat fields and rice paddies that were irrigated by water delivered in troughs from aqueducts.
The storm on Saturday night was not as destructive to crops as was at first feared. Small grains unless quite ripe will straighten up again. On account of the quick growth of corn its liability to break off was increased, still the crop will be very fair if no other ill befalls it.
Opinions. Everyone has them, or so the saying goes.
By Shane Goodman
I bought a newspaper in Guthrie County earlier this month, and I have been flooded with positive comments and support from local residents. A specific question has come up a few times, and it deals with opinions.
