In a recent television ad, Nikki Haley suggests having a competency test for all candidates over the age of 75 …
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Jay Stolba Letters to the Editor Sep. 24, 2023 6:00 am876d ago
In a recent television ad, Nikki Haley suggests having a competency test for all candidates over the age of 75 …
Kathy Rickertsen Letters to the Editor Sep. 24, 2023 6:00 am876d ago
The federal funds coming to Cedar Rapids to help with planting new trees and reforestation of the city is great, …
Rev. Bob Welsh
Letters to the Editor Sep. 24, 2023 6:00 am876d ago
I have never been a patient at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. I am not a Catholic. In fact, I …
Laura Brindle
Letters to the Editor Sep. 24, 2023 6:00 am876d ago
If the Congress cannot do their job and vote for a budget, then Congress should be the first to feel …
Paul Deaton
Letters to the Editor Sep. 21, 2023 6:00 am879d ago
Contrary to what letters in this newspaper reported, the climate crisis remains. It is a crisis. It is peculiar to …
James Kane
Letters to the Editor Sep. 19, 2023 10:31 pm880d ago
Here are some of Donald Trump’s accomplishments: Tax breaks for the rich. Run up of the national debt more than …
Chet Sullivan
Letters to the Editor Sep. 18, 2023 5:00 am882d ago
Is climate change really the existential crisis of out time? As reported by Cal Thomas, 1,609 scientists, including two Nobel …
Diane Duncan Goldsmith
Letters to the Editor Sep. 18, 2023 4:00 am882d ago
The Boards and Commissions Review Committee was created in Gov. Kim Reynolds’ extensive plan to reorganize state government. Committee recommendations …
Lauren Tiffany
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2023 6:00 am883d ago
Remember when Gov Reynolds said, “I want my own (attorney general)?” Well, now she has one in Steve King’s former …
Jane Cox
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2023 6:00 am883d ago
I’m writing this to all Americans. We claim the name American, forgetting our neighbors of South America. So I ask …
Marcus Miller
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2023 6:00 am883d ago
A letter to the editor criticizing the UI football scoreboard performance suggested visitors might have thought the tech staff “were …
Feather Lacy
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2023 6:00 am883d ago
In 2015, Iowa City voters elected the self-declared “Core Four,” local attorney Rockne Cole, retired University of Iowa professor Jim …
Steven Carfrae
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2023 6:00 am883d ago
Debates are very important, but they have turned more into a circus lately without the animals or clowns. I suggest …
Gary Ellis
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2023 6:00 am883d ago
You folks apparently haven’t spent much time thinking about the problems created for election works if ballots and election materials …
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