The recent missile alert fright in Hawaii reminded me of a similar event in Iowa many years ago. Fewer people …
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Carroll McKibbin, guest columnist Guest Columnists Jan. 20, 2018 9:30 am2785d ago
The recent missile alert fright in Hawaii reminded me of a similar event in Iowa many years ago. Fewer people …
Landon Elkind, guest columnist Guest Columnists Jan. 16, 2018 7:43 am2789d ago
The president of the United States on Jan. 2 threatened 25.37 million human beings with nuclear war. As The Gazette …
Linda Kinman and Katie Rock, guest columnists
Guest Columnists Jan. 15, 2018 4:30 am2790d ago
Iowa’s water-quality debate continued at the capitol as legislators returned for the 2018 session. It appears the bill supported by …
Troy Willard, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jan. 14, 2018 12:45 pm2791d ago
There is a reason three times as many water bottles are being landfilled in Iowa as compared to bottle-deposit containers …
Al Pierson, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jan. 14, 2018 5:30 am2791d ago
The Time Check neighborhood traces its beginnings to the early 1870s, shortly after property along the west side of the …
Kurt Ullrich, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jan. 15, 2018 9:22 am2790d ago
I don’t have a cellular telephone, I don’t tweet, I know nothing of Facebook, my television watching relies solely upon …
Shannon Meister, guest columnist Guest Columnists Jan. 9, 2018 6:00 am2796d ago
The Bottle Bill has been in the news recently after the Iowa Grocery Industry released the results of a poll …
Christopher Larimer, guest columnist Guest Columnists Jan. 8, 2018 7:00 am2797d ago
‘What makes people in and around government attend, at any given time, to some subjects and not to others?” That …
John Hendrickson, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jan. 8, 2018 3:30 am2797d ago
Tax reform will be one of the issues the Iowa Legislature will consider in the 2018 session. Iowa’s tax code …
Peter Fisher, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jan. 7, 2018 6:30 am2798d ago
When Kansas enacted major cuts to state income taxes in 2012 and 2013, Jonathan Williams and others at ALEC (the …
Douglas Burns, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Jan. 7, 2018 5:30 am2798d ago
In the snowy white, diversity-free future Steve King envisions for Iowa, a blond-haired, milky skinned paradise parade of purebred Caucasian, …
Leigh Rekow, guest columnist
Guest Columnists Feb. 14, 2023 11:54 am934d ago
Note: Postville Mayor Leigh Rekow submitted a rebuttal to Lynda Waddington’s column published Dec. 31: Lynda, you are invited to …
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