![]() ![]() ![]() Nearly 80% of Iowans read public notices in community newspapers. You can search our website for legal notices, and the Iowa Newspaper Association offers a statewide database of public notices from its members (at no charge). Currently, you can browse the Times Pilot and see that your spinster aunt’s probate is on file. If you think about it, and really want to find out what happened at the Alta-Aurelia School Board meeting, you can start searching the Internet. The state will charge to post the public notice. After that, forget about finding out how much a county supervisor got paid for hotel expenses. This bill will put public notices online at a state website for a couple weeks. Okay, we’ll take our lumps, but what about the public? What about you? BV County is spending millions to help launch a new soy crush facility near Lake Creek that is not locally owned.) (Although they shell out hundreds of millions in subsidies for Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Wells Fargo. Republicans said it’s not their job to make our payroll. Maybe we’re bad managers, but we are still here against all odds and supporting 20 employees. Last year we showed a profit of $2,900 - Brother John is paid nothing and I am paid $900 per month. We will have to find over $100,000 per year to make it up. The loss of public notices will deal a huge body blow to the Cherokee Chronicle Times and the Storm Lake Times Pilot. One of them will be the Aurelia Star, which we operate. My friends in the Iowa Newspaper Association believe that a third of our nearly 300 community newspapers will fold if paid legal notices - council minutes, school board claims, probate notices and the like - are eliminated. In private, a senator told one of our folks in the capitol that the backers want to “cancel newspapers.” They tell the public that they want to save money.
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