Jasper Mayor Terry Seitz announced his intent to run for a second term in the 2015 Indiana municipal elections. First elected in November of 2011, Seitz said the underlying reason for seeking another term is simple. “Unfinished business. I understand the natural flow of government is at a very tempered pace especially anything involving major…
Update Feb. 29: The Dubois County Election Board has rendered a decision in regards to the public hearing held on Feb. 27. The Board has decided Joshua Wold, Monica Wold, and John King have not met the requirements under Indiana Code or Republican Party Rules in regards to their candidacy filings as delegates to the…
http://youtu.be/zp4zCjObA_4 In a recent interview with Mr. John Burger, Dubois County Free Press had a chance to ask the Democratic candidate for mayor of Jasper a few questions about his both his background and his hopes for the city’s future. Looking back on his history in Jasper, Burger claims he is blessed to have both…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ACNQ9LT2M In a recent interview with Mr. Terry Seitz, Dubois County Free Press had a chance to ask the Republican candidate for mayor of Jasper a few questions about his both his background and his hopes for the city’s future. When asked to cite his qualifications for being mayor of Jasper, Seitz recounted a professional…
The final segment of the mayoral forum consisted of a selection of questions submitted by the audience and via Facebook that were then posed to both candidates as they sat on the stage together. First up was Burger, asked to rate the quality of Jasper’s infrastructure. His feeling was that the city’s road quality was…
Jasper’s mayoral forum opened Tuesday night at Vincennes University Jasper Campus with a welcome from VUJC dean Dr. Alan Johnson, where he stated that the night’s goal was to give Jasper’s residents a better idea of the two candidates’ positions on important governmental issues. The event resulted in a respectful and positive-thinking discussion, mostly centered…
[adrotate group=”1″] Today the candidates in the 2011 Huntingburg city election joined together to sign a Political Civility Challenge offered by the Huntingburg Chamber of Commerce. This is in keeping with a similar pledge signed between Russ Stillwell and Sue Ellspermann during their election campaigns and follows the Jasper Chamber pledge signed by Jasper candidates…
[sj] With public hearing on the Biomass proposal for leasing Jasper’s Power Plant now behind us, and the unlikeliness of another public hearing, I think it is important to respectfully request the city council to hold a city wide vote by residents who are registered to vote. I feel this is the fairest way and…
Over the last year, many have engaged in the debate over the outcome of the Jasper power plant. While watching the process unfold, your local TEA Party group, the Freedom Makers, decided to follow the political process. We saw that information was hard to come by. We also observed a very vocal base of biomass…
Janet Kemp’s response: I am writing this editorial as a candidate for the Mayor of Huntingburg. I write this with the hopes to explain my main reasons why I disagreed with a political party sponsoring a community event and celebration. First and foremost, I am a candidate for Mayor, and after working so closely with…
