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Thank you to everyone who applied to serve as community representatives to The Gazette’s editorial board in 2015. Here are …
Growing up on a livestock farm 60 years ago was more exciting than you might think. My dad farmed with …
Gov. Terry Branstad and the House are using the school calendar start date issue as a smoke screen to slide …
As we enter into the sixth year of subpar economic performance in the developed world, coupled with increasing talk of …
The street in front of my home in Early is deteriorating. In fact, there’s a 10-yard-long section where grass grows …
Women make up 22.7 percent of the 2015 Iowa House and Senate. It’s an improvement, but if we want gender equity …
It has been suggested that simply raising the ‘value” of high school education is enough to fix our disconnect between …
The Environmental Protection Agency must be doing a good job. Corporations want it gone and the people it benefits have …
Having served as a school and City PTA president, as well as Executive Director of Iowa PTA, I’m deeply concerned …
The recent terrorist attack in France and the continued horror of beheadings by Isis seem to confirm the argument that …
Is the Des Moines Water Works lawsuit really needed? Well no, not if we return our agriculture to crops that …
Last week, in her State of the Union response, Jodi Ernst mentioned going to school with bread bags on her …
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