Introduction With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening elections across the United States and the rest of the world, it’s been more important than ever to be able to vote at home and not risk being exposed. One way to do this is through widespread adoption of voting by mail. In most systems like this (adopted years…
Sigourney City Council Meeting, Mar 18
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in Keokuk County and across the nation, this City Council Meeting was a little different than most. Because of the Governor’s proclamation to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people, they decided to have us in the lobby with the option to rotate in and out as we needed to…
Keokuk County Coronavirus
Introduction The novel coronavirus (Covid-19), also known as SARS-Cov2 is a new virus that is causing a respiratory illness across the United States and the globe. It was first identified in December 2019 (Cleveland Clinic, 2020) in Wuhan, China. Symptoms of Covid-19 There is an incubation period (Lauer, 2020) of 5.5 days, with symptoms appearing…
Sigourney City Council Meeting, Mar 4
Below are some brief notes from the March 4th Sigourney City Council Meeting. City Council Agenda Items Consent Agenda Approval of a Consent Agenda The Consent Agenda included the approval of the minutes from the previous meeting, the Council Accounts Payable, approval of the credit card report and approval of Don North (Director of Public…
Methods of Measuring State Economies
State government economies vary tremendously in size in the US, with California’s GDP being so large that if it were its own country it would be the 5th largest in the world (Egel, May 4 2018) Inc Magazine Method Inc is a business magazine founded in 1979 and known for the “Inc 5000”, a list…