Category - Opinion

Tax relief needs to happen

Many K-12 public school districts across the state received healthy increases in state aid for the 2023-24 fiscal year. Gov. Jim Pillen and our own State Sen...

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Albion housing survey 2023

City of Albion is planning an initiative to increase housing in the community, and your help is needed. If you are an Albion resident, you are invited to take a survey...

Then, where would we be?

By Jim Dickerson National Newspaper Week was observed last week, Oct. 2-8. We were busy with some other upcoming special weeks and a variety of news. I didn’t...

Boone County gets noticed

By Jim Dickerson Albion News/Boone County Tribune My Side of the Fencepost, May 4, 2022 I’m glad to report Boone County again received great publicity during one of our...

My Side of the Fencepost — Real Inflation

By Jim Dickerson – Feb. 2, 2022 We’re hearing about inflation quite often these days, but are we hearing the “real” story? It’s more likely that we’re feeling real...

Improving literacy is goal of Kid Scoop News

A new project aimed at improving literacy has been launched in the Boone County area by the Albion News/Boone County Tribune and Petersburg Press, along with the...