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There was a time when Iowa's election laws shone as a bright beacon of democracy to our peers in other states. Thanks to dubious actions by the state Legislature, the Hawkeye State has fallen far from...
S-N Editorial
Hartley taxpayers can give themselves a big, hard pat on the back. Voters on Tuesday approved the $1.7 pool bond measure with 84 percent of the vote. That's huge, and it proved city residents are...
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Half a million and counting More Americans have now died of COVID-19 than those who perished in both World Wars and the Vietnam War combined. As of Tuesday morning, the tally sat at 500,104. Half a million dead Americans is hard to grasp. That’s a l...
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Many Americans remember President George W. Bush's 2003 "Mission Accomplished" speech not for its words, but for its imagery. The address came following decisive success by U.S. troops during the...
S-N Editorial
Whether you're a Democrat, Republican or something in between, nobody is envious of President Joe Biden right now. On Wednesday he inherited a nation deeply divided along partisan lines, with millions...
Picking up the pieces
Millions of Americans have spent the past week trying to comprehend the events that unfolded Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. It’s fair to say many were appalled but not surprised, and we can all hope this reprehensible moment will serve as a reckoning f...
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4 was the year of "un's." Unprecedented. Unheard of. Unreal. It's redundant at this point. Whatever hopes people had for this year, 2020 promptly crushed them. It's futile to list everything that...
S-N Editorial
There’s a good chance we’ll have a brown Christmas this year. That’s fitting, because 2020 has been one long brown streak after another. Everyone could use a little holiday cheer right now. Some folks put up their Christmas lights and decorations ear...
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It seems like people in need living in small, rural communities are often forgotten – resources are thin and adequate help can be hard to come by. That situation has been exacerbated during the l...
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It may not seem like there’s much to be grateful for this year. It’s probably pointless to note the pandemic has been the ultimate trump card on everything in 2020, but here we are. Still, there’s plenty to be thankful for if you look below the s...
S-N Editorial: Our darkest hour?
Iowa is facing its darkest days right now, and it's not because the clocks rolled back an hour this month. COVID-19 infections are through the roof, hospitalizations are at an all-time high and...
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The term "personal responsibility" is a loaded one. Everyone claims to possess this virtuous attribute, but it's often weaponized against people who apparently lack it. It seems many folks believe tha...
S-N Editorial: Divided, but not yet conquered
If there’s something we can all agree on right now, it’s that we can’t agree on anything. Sure, we might all think the sky is blue, but given enough time to squabble over it, there would probably be half the country that claims it’s green. Things are...
You just never know
The days are shorter, the breeze is a bit cooler and cornfields throughout northwest Iowa have already turned that special shade of gold. It's harvest season once again, and with its arrival comes...
S-N Editorial: The way we were
If you're old enough, you probably remember where you were 19 years ago tomorrow when you heard the news. Two planes had hit the Twin Towers in New York City and another crashed into the Pentagon....
S-N Editorial: Where's the common sense?
The pandemic has reached its eighth month, but it feels like eight years. There's still no end in sight and hope is admittedly hard to come by these days – it's just one thing after another. C...
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This year has been a slog. The pandemic and subsequent economic nosedive have made millions of Americans hurt, and excruciatingly, there is no end in sight. When this all ends, nobody knows....
Keep the past in the past
Despite a global pandemic and a list of domestic issues too long to count, there’s been fervent debate recently about an issue that should have died 155 years ago. Several southern American cities have been removing statues and monuments of C...
Sentinel-News Editorial
In addition to a COVID-19 vaccine, reopening schools is a lynchpin in getting the economy back on track. Parents need to work, and that's difficult to do when kids are stuck at home forced to learn...
Sentinel-News Editorial
You don't have to look very far to find progress here in Hartley. The new elementary school is nearing the finish line and construction of the Highway 18 Industrial Park has hummed right along this su...
Editorial: Salvaging the summer
Calling this year a doozy would be the biggest understatement of all time. Nothing is as it once was, and nobody could have dreamt up this "new normal" in their wildest fever dream. Despite the...
Area Happenings & Accomplishments
Tourism tours continue in O’Brien County During the past two months, O’Brien County Tourism has promoted four different tours that families can enjoy locally while maintaining a safe social distance from others. If you missed information about the...
Don't regulate real results
Efficiencies are often found in times of crisis. Last week's primary election in Iowa was evidence of that. More than 520,000 votes were cast, shattering the previous record of 449,490 set in 1994. De...
Area Happenings & Accomplishments
Food pantry at Hope Lutheran The food pantry at Hope Lutheran Church in Everly is still open. Temporary hours are Mondays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., and Wednesdays, 1-5 p.m. Please knock on the church door and food will be brought out to you. McCarty shower...
Editorial: American carnage
If you've ever wondered what it would feel like to live through the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, Great Depression and civil unrest of the 1960s all at once, 2020 is just the year for you. The last...
