Mark Twain once famously wrote, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.”
Lately, it seems only the last kind is considered a crime and the first two are merely entertainment....
Kudos to another excellent bunch of honorees for the Uptown Theater Awards, now apparently conducting the 10th annual awards ceremony. They, like many of us, don’t count the COVID-19 pandemic year.
This...
In the next couple of weeks, I’ll be getting a new pair of glasses.
And they’ll be coming with progressive lenses.
As someone who has had glasses since the second or third grade, and has been staring...
As another first Tuesday in November comes to a close, the Mount Vernon/ Lisbon Unit of the LWV expresses our appreciation to the many community members who helped make this election season a success...
Daylight Saving Time is coming up. But with each passing day, the temperature drops and it gets dark a little earlier. The name “Daylight Saving Time” makes it sound like we are accumulating daylight...
Marti Hurst, Mount Vernon Citizen
• October 29, 2025
My early memories can be fickle! And they seem to be more so with my advancing age.
But I vividly recall as a child, going with my parents when they cast their votes on a brisk fall morning. Our township...
Stephanie West, Mount Vernon City Council
• October 29, 2025
Dear Residents of Mount Vernon,
I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude for the trust and support you have given me over the past eight years as your city council member. Serving this small,...
Unless you have been living under a rock, you should be well aware of the Government shutdown. The extent of this action is enormous and reaches far beyond Washington D.C. As of this writing, the shutdown...
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed a packed crowd at Rice University’s stadium in Houston to make a bold proposal. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do other...
Looking at this week’s newspaper, there’s plenty going on in our communities. We have gallery openings at Cornell College and Abbe Creek Gallery this weekend. We’re a week out from Mount Vernon’s...
When elected a school board member, each of you swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the US and of Iowa, and soon some of you will again make that oath.
1828 Webster dictionary defines OATH as
A...
Americans are getting fed up. Literally. Oh, we still like to eat. But diners are choosing to eat smaller portions. And restaurants are getting worried. Sure, food prices are rising and incomes are dropping....
