The corporate and political elites who govern the American empire seem to have borrowed another practice from the Roman empire. …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jul. 9, 2011 12:43 am5302d ago
The corporate and political elites who govern the American empire seem to have borrowed another practice from the Roman empire. …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jul. 9, 2011 12:40 am5302d ago
Hope and change only turned out to be vacuous rhetoric to move a monetarily bereft nation into a deeper hold …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 8, 2011 9:48 am5303d ago
Kudos to Jim Leach for telling it like it is. There was a time when the common good meant something. …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 8, 2011 9:44 am5303d ago
I was so happy when The Gazette returned the picture page to the back of the paper. My question is …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 8, 2011 9:37 am5303d ago
As a woman who has been in the Iowa work force for many years, I have paid close attention to …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 8, 2011 9:36 am5303d ago
As a physician, married father of two daughters and a resident of Iowa, I am quite concerned about people with …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 8, 2011 9:35 am5303d ago
Many opinion page comments and letters from the left assault businesses as the bad guys in our country. Because of …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 7, 2011 1:17 pm5304d ago
A task force with the responsibility for honoring former Cedar Rapids Mayor Don Canney has recommended renaming The Eastern Iowa …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 7, 2011 1:07 pm5304d ago
It is bewildering that the wealthiest people do not want to pay their share of taxes but at the same …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 7, 2011 1:05 pm5304d ago
In reference to Brad Fisher’s July 3 letter urging the city to sell off parts of Ellis Park, including the …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 7, 2011 1:04 pm5304d ago
Congratulations and thanks to all the planners, workers and sponsors of the Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival. It was terrific, and …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 6, 2011 3:45 pm5305d ago
While attending a Little League Baseball game in Alburnett, a number of us observed a disturbing event. At the end …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 6, 2011 3:42 pm5305d ago
The Republicans must assume we are all stupid. In 2001 Bush takes office, inheriting the budget surplus left by Clinton. …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 6, 2011 3:34 pm5305d ago
Chuck Grassley was on C-SPAN and said he is a fiscal conservative. The same Chuck Grassley was for spending hundreds …
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