To the editor: Joey Norris is running for District 12 of the Iowa Senate. He is one of Iowa’s best kept secrets. I have taken the time to listen to Joey speak at his Drive-In Tours. “Iowa’s 12th District needs someone active and involved in our local area to represent Southwest Iowa in Des Moines,”…

To the editor: The TNC, the Trump National Convention, wrapped up Thursday night with a long harangue touting the personal accomplishments of one Donald J. Trump. I thought about how much I miss the GOP, the traditional Republican Party. The TNC, featured all of the immediate family, including second wife Marla Maples’, often ignored daughter,…

To the editor; This letter is addressed to my fellow citizens, regardless of political affiliation and involves our country’s oldest institution, the U.S. Postal Service. Are we going to stand by and allow Donald Trump to destroy the U.S. Postal Service by withholding funds to boost his reelection effort? In an interview with Maria Bartiromo…

To the editor: With regard to your “Idle Chatter” column in the 23 July Mount Ayr Record News, you’ve pretty adequately identified the administrative chaos which results when someone “moves the goal posts”, but of course the larger issue is that the public education system as we know it is in the throes of being…

To the editor: As of Friday, July 17, Johns Hopkins University reported that “there have been 3,576,593 U.S. cases of COVID-19,” [more than any other country in the world including India with a population of at least 1 billion] and 138,362 deaths. With testing and contract tracing as a means of controlling the virus, the…

To the editor: It is time to stop the riots. They say Black Lives Matter. We used to sing a little song in Sunday school. It goes: “Jesus loves the little children, all the little children of the world – red, yellow, black, and white – they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the…

To the editor: Mount Ayr Preservation, Inc. saw the need to replace the old windows in the 140-year-old one-room school that is restored and displayed on the Ringgold County Fairgrounds. We received a bid to replace needed windows with new wind- and water-resistant windows. We applied for a grant from the South Central Iowa Community…

To the editor: This letter is addressed to the individual who wrote their unsolicited opinion in the library book, “Spearhead,” by Adam Makos. In  Chapter 14, in a paragraph referring to the “Night of Broken Glass,”  a reference was made to  Antifa.  Simply speaking, Antifa is an anti Fascist,  political movement in the United States …

Dear Editor, To paraphrase the immortal bard, “To mask or not to mask. That is the question?” Whether it is nobler to mask and prevent the deaths of 33,000 Americans by October, approximately the number of combat deaths in the Korean War, 1950-53, or continue to ignore experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci in favor of…

To the editor: I am composing this letter in regards to the upcoming sheriff’s election and in support of Rob Haley for sheriff. I have worked with Sheriff Haley in a professional capacity for approximately 14 years to date.  First, I worked in the capacity of a Social Worker II for the Iowa Department of…