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Tom Cooperrider, a Hartford Township trustee, said area farmers have been approached about leasing their land. “I signed up more than a year ago," Cooperrider said. "They’re just looking for good ground to lease for a solar panel project. Farmers here signed up for that. I think it’d be a pretty good chunk of money for the school system.” State Sen. Jay Hottinger, R-Newark, said he met recently with Kevin DeWine, a lobbyist who represents Open Road Renewables. Hottinger said the proposal was for a 350-megawatt solar field. State law assesses $7,000 per megawatt for solar and wind fi...

Laying It Out: A deficit of good ideas Poll Will you visit a business if they open in spite of health restrictions that say they can’t? Yes Can we officially lay to rest the myth about deficit spending, crammed down our throats by austerity-drunk “fiscal” conservatives and adopted by centrist and self-proclaimed left-leaning politicians around the world? Honestly. If Thursday’s Alberta budget doesn’t convince people the very idea of balancing the books any time soon is not just a fantasy but a gigantic mistake, we are in for a painful couple of decades – at least. They say a budge...

“I hope the conservatives can find a better monkey.” I don’t normally discuss the feedback I receive from readers, and I would never put a name beside what someone assumes to be a private conversation. But I had a short exchange this week with a truly loyal conservative voter, and it stuck in my brain. It’s important to note his initial email was extremely respectful, even complimentary, and that remained throughout. And while he wasn’t pretending to agree with everything I write, we shared common ground on the track record of the current “conservative” government – most notab...

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December 20, 2020 Sheldon, Iowa — About two hundred round bales were destroyed by fire late Saturday afternoon at a rural Sheldon farm. According to Sheldon Assistant Fire Chief Brad Hindt, firefighters were paged out to 3342 Lily Avenue, about three miles southwest of Northwest Iowa Community College, shortly before 4:30 Saturday afternoon to the report of hay bales on fire. On arrival, Hindt says firefighters found a stack of about 200 round bales and a large burn pit on fire. Firefighters attacked the large burn pit and the stack of bales to control the embers from spreading to other are...