Opinion

To the editor:On April 2, the residents of the Fairfield Community School District will be given the opportunity to approve a $10 million project to refurbish the Fairfield High School building. The present building was completed in 1939 and has seen some remodeling in past years. The basic structure of the high school is rock solid, but has seen many generations of students pass through the halls. My father-in-l...

To the editor:After many years of study and discussion about what is the best solution of how to bringFairfield Community High School up to the standard it deserves, I feel the time is right.Our superintendent, school board and progressive community group has put together an excellent renovation plan that will solve many of the problems that exist today.I want to congratulate all of you involved in this much ...

To the editor:Some people in the health care profession have made arguments and emotional appeals for the expansion of Medicaid. I would like to present some considerations in support of not expanding Medicaid.One of the main arguments for supporting the expansion is that this is free money from the federal government. Free money from the federal government has been one of the biggest myths of our lifetime and ...

I speak for the people working for USDA?s Iowa Farm Service Agency. We all are proud to be partners with the men and women who farm and ranch in Iowa. Agriculture is an honorable profession and we are honored to do our part to help. We salute you on Ag Day, March 19.?Generations Nourishing Generations? is the theme for this year?s Ag Day. Our country?s farmers and ranchers work hard to provide food and clothing ...

To the editor:Thanks to Representative Chip Baltimore, (Dist. 48 (R) Boone) for discovering that Fairfield Public School and MSAE principals already have the power to prevent a tragic Sandyhook-type massacre at their schools.Iowa Code Section 724.4B(2)(b) ? on the books since 1995 ? gives school administrators the power to authorize teachers, janitors, themselves, volunteers or even members of the general ...

To the editor:In a grading scale, an A+ is the best score. An A+ represents dedication and commitment to learning and achievement.Schools are also rated by their curriculum, faculty, and physical structure. The Fairfield Community School District and community must dedicate and commit themselves to improving Fairfield High School.These needed improvements will be an A+ decision. On April 2, eligible voters ...

I have the privilege of serving an organization whose mission and vision uphold the moral conviction that every person deserves access to health care.At Jefferson County Health Center our commitment to serving as a healing presence to the most vulnerable among us means the debate over whether Iowa should expand the Medicaid health insurance program comes down to a moral question. We believe caring for the least ...

To the editor:When asked about Iowans too poor to afford health insurance, Governor Branstad talks about health care savings accounts, increasing co-pays, and people drinking at open bars at weddings.Governor, making health care more expensive won?t help people who can?t afford it in the first place.Iowa?s governor has no idea what it is like to be unemployed or to work for the minimum wage.He?s been on the ...

To the editor:A blueprint is used to construct a baseball camp with pitching machines. DNA is a spiral helix (twisting) blueprint. DNA blueprints construct proteins and every part of our body. DNA creates all creatures and plants.The DNA study of cancer identifies 236 mutated human genes, which lead to cancer.MALDI imaging mass spectrometry was used to classify patients with melanoma cancer remissions and ...

To the editor:We are being inundated with a new scholarship, or lack thereof, of American history from the Declaration of Independence to the first years of the 21st century which lives in the aftermath of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.It seems that generations have a tendency to rewrite history to meet the needs of that time, with politicians playing to an audience with little or no knowledge of American ...

To the editor:For a project in ninth-grade English at Fairfield High School, we were required to write a paper comparing and contrasting the Greek hero Odysseus to a modern-day hero of our choosing. I myself consider astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to be a hero of today. He is similar yet very different from Odysseus, and I have a few reasons why.First, both men are very eloquent. They have a way of persuasio...

To the editor:On April 2, 2013, residents who live in the Fairfield Community School District boundaries will vote on a $10,000,000 bond issue to pay for needed improvements at the Fairfield High School. The district?s website has posted information to help you understand the question up for a vote. They also include polling place locations and hours polls are open.Because almost everyone in the district ...