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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Aug. 13, 2011 12:01 am5267d ago
Whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, it’s clear we have a professional campaigner and an incompetent leader surrounded by his …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Aug. 13, 2011 12:00 am5267d ago
This debt ceiling fiasco has reached a new low in governing. The real Tea Party-GOP agenda is to kill the …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2011 12:57 pm5268d ago
If you look at the various studies conducted on our fiscal problems – Simpson-Bowles plan, Heritage Foundation (no silver bullet) …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2011 12:56 pm5268d ago
Face it: American-made products cost more than their overseas counterparts due to the underlying marketing, engineering design, product development and …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2011 12:56 pm5268d ago
I have been a lifelong moderate Republican, but for many of us, there is nowhere to go except for the …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2011 12:55 pm5268d ago
Kudos to Linda Wardehoff for her Aug. 2 letter about the police and their day at work. So many people …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2011 12:46 pm5268d ago
When I read stories of criminals who want the venue changed for their trial, it upsets me (i.e., “Murder suspect …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2011 1:52 pm5269d ago
I found it amazing that Michele Bachmann had the nerve to challenge President Barack Obama to address the nation with …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2011 1:51 pm5269d ago
A couple goes through a divorce, the judge orders supervised visits for the father. Only this judge orders visits to …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2011 1:50 pm5269d ago
I am growing increasingly frustrated with our senior U.S. senators from Iowa and their apparent lack of clout on Capitol …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2011 1:39 pm5269d ago
Recent news stories reveal a senseless hysteria about the dangers of nuclear power. Some of the wringing of hands comes …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2011 2:27 pm5270d ago
The subject in question is the lascivious acts committed against our most helpless citizens and our failure as a society …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2011 2:26 pm5270d ago
In Rick Smith’s July 28 article about the cost of the City Hall project, Mayor Ron Corbett is quoted as …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2011 2:25 pm5270d ago
In 1787 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, said this: “A democracy is always temporary …
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