Before you finish reading this, 20 people in the United States will be abused by an intimate partner. That is …
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Paul Pate Guest Columnists Oct. 7, 2022 5:00 am1220d ago
Before you finish reading this, 20 people in the United States will be abused by an intimate partner. That is …
Susie Weinacht Guest Columnists Oct. 6, 2022 5:00 am1221d ago
Susie Weinacht | Iowa House District 73 Our most recent history shows that we are people who can come together …
Dawn Driscoll
Guest Columnists Oct. 6, 2022 5:00 am1221d ago
As a sixth-generation farmer, agriculture has been central to who I am for my whole life. I was the past …
Nicholas Johnson
Guest Columnists Oct. 5, 2022 3:53 pm1221d ago
As a Gazette reader you don’t need reminders of the challenges Iowans and other Homo sapiens have helped create for …
Molly Donahue
Guest Columnists Oct. 5, 2022 5:00 am1222d ago
Molly Donahue | Iowa Senate District 37 I announced my run for the Senate minutes after the special session had …
Jessica Wiskus
Guest Columnists Oct. 5, 2022 5:00 am1222d ago
Jessica Wiskus | Iowa Senate District 42 Voters may already recognize my name from local and national newspaper articles, webinars, …
Liz Bennett Guest Columnists Oct. 4, 2022 6:00 am1223d ago
Liz Bennett | Senate District 39 My name is Liz Bennett, and I have had the honor to serve my …
Bernie Hayes Guest Columnists Oct. 4, 2022 6:00 am1223d ago
Bernie Hayes | Iowa Senate District 39 You remember Pravda, the mouthpiece of the Soviet Union for eight decades (until …
Norman Sherman
Guest Columnists Oct. 3, 2022 7:00 am1224d ago
Say it quickly before he or she disappears from your paper: Ben Sasse for president. (Don’t be vulgar.) Try Kristi …
Kris Gulick
Guest Columnists Oct. 3, 2022 7:00 am1224d ago
I have always been passionate about public service. After the flood of 2008, as a member of the Cedar Rapids …
Todd Taylor
Guest Columnists Oct. 2, 2022 7:00 am1225d ago
I am running for re-election in the newly drawn Senate District 40. This includes NW Cedar Rapids, NE Cedar Rapids …
Charles Crawley
Guest Columnists Oct. 2, 2022 7:00 am1225d ago
Theodore Roosevelt was right: the more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future. On …
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