The corpse of the losing Presidential campaign isn’t cold but they’re sharpening knives for autopsy. As always, according to the …
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Bruce Lear Guest Columnists Nov. 12, 2024 6:33 am404d ago
The corpse of the losing Presidential campaign isn’t cold but they’re sharpening knives for autopsy. As always, according to the …
President Franklin Roosevelt Guest Columnists Nov. 11, 2024 5:00 am405d ago
President Franklin Roosevelt’s spoke on Armistice Day at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 11, 1941, just weeks before Japan attacked …
Norman Sherman
Guest Columnists Nov. 11, 2024 5:00 am405d ago
I like humility in people. Most of us do. No high hat, no royal robes, no swagger. That’s especially true …
Mary Timp
Guest Columnists Nov. 10, 2024 5:00 am406d ago
Most people don’t want to be in a nursing home. That’s especially so because some of our homes are scary. …
William Lambers
Guest Columnists Nov. 10, 2024 5:00 am406d ago
The start of the Revolutionary War is known as “The Shot Heard Round the World.” Veterans Day, (Armistice Day) is …
Wally Taylor
Guest Columnists Nov. 10, 2024 5:00 am406d ago
Olivia Cohen’s Oct. 25 article in The Gazette, reporting on NexEra’s interest in restarting the Duane Arnold nuclear plant, requires …
Guest Columnists Nov. 10, 2024 5:00 am406d ago
November, one of those in-between months, rather like winter, but not quite, no longer autumn, and very dark. In November …
Norman Sherman Guest Columnists Nov. 4, 2024 5:00 am412d ago
Trying to decide what words to write for my fellow Iowans, (trumpets in the background) as Election Day arrives hasn’t …
John Hale, Terri Hale and Dean Learner
Guest Columnists Nov. 3, 2024 5:00 am413d ago
Iowans are concerned, anxious, angry about an $85 million nursing home sale.
Heather Hora
Guest Columnists Nov. 2, 2024 5:00 am414d ago
My name is Heather Hora and I am running for re-election for Iowa House in District 92. I am a …
Sami Scheetz
Guest Columnists Nov. 2, 2024 5:00 am414d ago
When we brought our daughter home from the hospital a few months ago, and I watched our baby swaddled in …
Josh Manske
Guest Columnists Nov. 2, 2024 5:00 am414d ago
My family has been farming the land for five generations and is involved in many aspects of agriculture. We produce …
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