• A reader writes: "The Tax Commissioner recently sent out a notice with the tax bills implying that the county had no choice but to include a $200-300 tax hike resulting from the loss of homeowners' tax relief grant.
That is disingenuous. I know for a fact that much smaller communities, including Adel, Cook County, Sparks, and Lenox, have absorbed that loss without passing the burden on to taxpayers.
You wonder what bloated salaries and entitlement programs the county is supporting." Join us on the opinion page for more commentary
