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CITY COUNCIL MEETS NOVEMBER 4—VOTES DOWN MIDWEST POOL CONTRACT
BY Mark McLaughlin
Editor
Citizen-Observer
CAMERON — The Cameron City Council met Monday night, and threw cold water on the continued management of the Cameron Aquatic Center by Midwest Pool Management.
In an otherwise fairly routine...
THE MCLAUGHLIN FILES
By Mark McLaughlin
Editor
Citizen-Observer
THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME
Coming into Tuesday, more than 90,000,000 early votes had been cast —That’s more than half of the 155,000,000 votes that went into the Biden-Trump match-up of 2020.
We won’t even get into...
APPEARING IN THIS WEEK'S CITIZEN-OBSERVER...
CITY COUNCIL VOTES DOWN MIDWEST POOL CONTRACT
OSHA PROPOSES $240,000 PENALTY F0R SAFETY VIOLATIONS IN MAY GRAIN BIN ACCIDENT IN HAMILTON
ROTARY PRESENTS $1,000 CHECK FOR VET'S MEMORIAL UPKEEP
CHEERLEADERS TAKE SECOND IN STATE COMPETITION
DRAGONS ADVANCE...
CITIZEN-OBSERVER EDITOR Mark McLaughlin will do an issues breakdown leading into the 2024 Election November 5. These "special" McLaughlin Files editorials will NOT appear in the Print-Edition of the newspaper.
To be covered:
Thursday, October 24—The Economy
Friday, October 25—Immigration
Monday,...
NEWS/OPINION UPDATES
By Mark McLaughlin
Editor’s note: Space is at a premium in the print edition, so between publications, news doesn’t stop and items for your consideration don’t stop either. So we’ll be placing news updates here on developing stories, and provide more opinion on the news of...
The Cameron Citizen-Observer RECOMMENDS to all voters the site www.ivoterguide.com , a non-partisan, objective, factual breakdown and profile of all the candidates for national and state elections, and a side-by-side comparison of the "Yes" and "No" positions and arguments for/against on Ballot...
Get your copy of the Citizen-Observer beginning this Thursday...in the news
1---Deep Dive on the Engineer's Report on City Hall
2---Reed-Hibler called on to resign from City Council
3---City Council Meeting Monday night with Park Board, then regular Meeting\
4---Report on Cameron R-1 MAP/EOC...
EDITORIAL: Is the City Council up to “the moment”?
The Cameron City Council participated in an extensive work session reviewing the City Hall engineering report of PST Engineering’s Frank Comer and his colleague, a no-nonsense, “cut to the quick” engineer/architect Bernie Reams.
It was a...
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH BREAST CANCER
By Mark McLaughlin
Editor, Citizen-Observer
My Mom was German, Dutch and Portuguese, her grandmother’s name was Viera and her maiden name was Hysler.
Her family emigrated to the United States in the 1870’s, and helped form a significant Portuguese...
GNWWC WATER PIPELINE NEARS COMPLETION; UTILITIES DIRECTOR JOHNSON MOVES ON
By Mark McLaughlin
Editor, Citizen-Observer
CAMERON—Outgoing Cameron Utilities Director Zac Johnson leaves the city with a going-away present.
The Great Northwest Wholesale Water Commission, which currently includes the...
