By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, March 29, 2023 – If you’re not living in Iowa, you might not appreciate just how nuts all of us here are right now about Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes women’s basketball team, which has reached this coming weekend’s Final Four of the NCAA tournament. I saw additional proof of…

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, March 26, 2023 – From the time 18 months ago when I agreed to take a leadership role in the Greene County economic development group’s bold initiative to diversify and grow our workforce and population, I’ve been clear and open about what I think my role is. As chairperson of…

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, March 8, 2023 – We thought we were doing all the right things in trying to help the Juarez family find food, a home, jobs and to start settling-in here. Then they left. No phone call, no text, no email, no written note.  And there’s been no contact from them…

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Aug. 31, 2022 — A group of 18 Latino business owners & entrepreneurs from Denison, Storm Lake, Perry, Carroll, Coon Rapids and Omaha spent Tuesday, Aug. 30, in Jefferson and Greene County on an invitation from Greene County Development Corp. to come see opportunities here for re-location, expansion or totally…

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Aug. 4, 2022 — Before Mark Prosser was hired 33 years ago as the new police chief in Storm Lake in northwest Iowa, he’d been a homicide detective in O’Fallon, Ill., also serving as an investigator and supervisor for a “Major Case” homicide unit working the entire St. Louis metro…