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Heard recently that the Globes cheer fund has been giving checks to very well off farmers in the area. I would encourage NIT to investigate this as many people give to this program. http://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A06672362
Hearing rumbling from the south that Wanda Kruse has run the Linn Grove County Club into the ground just as she did the fairgrounds–what does NIT know about that situation?
You need to update the Winnebago Jail inmates. It hasn’t changed in a month.
One in seven Americans now receive food stamps. Probably higher around here.
For the chap who asked about the flight in formation, they appeared over the skies of Mason City again today at 1615 hours. This time the formation was wing to wing, two Corsairs, a B-25 Mitchell, and a single Corsair. At 3000 feet, even with the high ambient noise, they sounded sweet.
They called themselves Legend Flight, however, I have no idea who that is, or where they are from. There are not many of the 10,000 B-25’s left, closest was part of the Confederate Air Force, located in St. Paul. Another resided at Oshkosh per my recollection.
Man what I would pay for a ride on one.
Flying pit bull attack leaves Wisconsin man with serious injuries
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2012/06/flying_pit_bull_attack_leaves_wisconsin_man_with_serious_injuries.php
The victim suffered puncture wounds to his face, arms, legs, and torso. He will eventually undergo surgery but is expected to live. The same cannot be said for the attacking dog, however.
Police found the pit bull still pinned under the car and blasted it twice with a shotgun, killing it. As of last night, police were still searching for the dog’s owner.
A Doubting Thomas neighbor, speaking of the aerial-attacking dog, said, “I’ve never seen him get vicious toward anyone before.”
Has any local news media picked up on the fact that Wanda Kruse has been fired by yet another business (linn grove country club) for failure to keep the books correctly? More missing money!!
Matt, I have a request. Would it be possible for you to add a place where people can give a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” indication in response to a comment, the way they do on some national news sites? It’s obvious that NIT is a popular place. Lots of readers. Not everyone feels comfortable blogging, however, even when they’re able to remain anonymous. Something like this would give more people a chance to participate in the discussions (in their own way).
Would that be possible? Thanks!!
I think there should be stories on these women who neglect their children. I also think that there should be a story on a person who beats up their Significant others. There are too many parents getting away with abusing or neglecting their children. Also with the abuse. Too many abusers are getting away with being violent against their Significant others
Matt, You should start a TV news network because KIMT absolutely sucks. Lets drive to Rochester to do a story about stale bread or lets go to Rochester because a dog barked at the local mail man, but local news wow none existent like today Saturday the Police Department had a Triathlon there were probably 500 people with dozens of local sponsors, this was a big event, you think there would be some good local news – haha what a joke KIMT, I suppose they were up in Minnesota trying to find a story about fish or maybe a dog at large
What happened at Goodwill today? Looked like the front of the store had been ram raided?
I read this on a woman’s face book account today: she wrote that her 2 year old daughter got into her truck and drove it into someone’s garage causing $1,100 in damage. Why was the 2 year old left alone in the truck with the keys being in there? If that wasn’t the case then why weren’t the parents watching her? Why was the child allowed to be left alone to get out and do this kind of damage? The mother I guess lives in Nora Springs, Iowa. Don’t these mothers and fathers know that you need to watch a toddler 24/7 if not things like this happen? I pray the child is ok. I don’t know if they took her to the hospital to get checked out. Causing 1,100 dollars in damage the truck must of being going really fast, If I was that child’s mother I would of been taking her to the doctor to make sure she was ok.
Is any other Alliant Energy customer sick of paying for this company’s bad decision making process???
I just opened my bill and read the customer bill update insert. What a rip-off that I have to pay for Alliant’s bad decision to sell their transmission lines to ITC. From what I can tell, this is going to be a substantial increase to our bills. Look on your bills for REG TRANSMISSION SERVICE AND NEW REG TRANSMISSION SERVICE.
I’d like to hear if you all agree that this company is greedy. Now, they want to further increase our bills with the natural gas rate hike they have in works. Gas prices are down, yet this rotten company wants more money!!!!!!
Stupid CAPTHCA Code! Anyone else hate the damn thing?
Did I miss an article on NIT about Mason City’s being named one of the top 14 cities in the WORLD to visit for architecture?
I am so sick of the Globe Gazette and their changing the foremat for their paper online. It was fine before, but they can’t leave well enough alone. I try to read the paper and keep up with what is going on in town, but I prefer North Iowa Today. At least you can say what you think instead of being edited by the idiots at the Globe. If they don’t agree, they will throw it out. I don’t know why anyone pays money to have that rag delivered. Too bad we don’t have more competition for people.
Just read the editorial in the globe about the new cell phone reporting system. Do they really think this is going to work? Who are they going to pay to go through all the shots of the mayor being drunk, elected officials not doing what they are suppose to be, and exterior shots of Alley Cats with violence and obscenities in them? They would probably be better off, or at least it would be cheaper, of they had people send them pictures od positive things in the community!
pies and more got their eviction notice today, have to be out of willowbrook by sept.1
pies and more got their eviction notice. have to be out of willowbrook by sept.1
Matt, can we have a place to post questions/comments that aren’t considered “whining”? I think there’s a lot of knowledge out there that people would be willing to share.
For example, I’m really disappointed in the changes Verizon will be making the end of this month. It will end up costing me more. My contract is up and I’m thinking of going with U.S. Cellular or another carrier. I’ll be looking at a new iPhone very soon (never had one). I’d like to know which carrier people would recommend for someone who doesn’t talk much but will be using about 2 gigabytes of data and around 500 text messages per month.
No advertising, please! I’m only interested in hearing from people who aren’t constantly on their iPhones and need an affordable plan. Thanks!!