I hear with interest that Sen. Tom Harkin feels there may be no federal disaster money to help with rebuilding …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:41 am5530d ago
I hear with interest that Sen. Tom Harkin feels there may be no federal disaster money to help with rebuilding …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:40 am5530d ago
In Mr. Leonard Pitts Jr.’s Aug. 8 column, “Keeping faith but losing religion,” he wrote: “Yet somehow in the last …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:39 am5530d ago
In response to the Aug. 7 article, “Prosser now living in Minn.”: Apparently part of Jim Prosser’s separation agreement with …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:38 am5530d ago
Most of us are aware of the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision allowing same-sex couples to be married via civil unions. …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:37 am5530d ago
A federal judge has ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which made same sex-marriage illegal in that state, violates the U.S. …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:35 am5530d ago
We hear the outcry about President Obama raising the national debt, trying to keep the country from going over a …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:34 am5530d ago
Members of Eye 380, a group of volunteers working to improve the appearance of Interstate 380 through the metro area, …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2010 12:32 am5530d ago
NBC has been airing a commercial about a new show titled “Outsourced.” How can NBC make jokes and expect laughs …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2010 12:59 am5531d ago
Some recent letters to The Gazette beg for rebuttals. One faulted President Obama for taking a vacation in wartime. While …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2010 12:58 am5531d ago
My reflections on the 55th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: If you defend the bombings, read …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2010 12:57 am5531d ago
In volunteer roles over the past several years, I have advocated that issues be addressed from the perspective of the …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 11, 2010 12:55 am5531d ago
Shame on both the Republicans and Democrats for allowing politics and bipartisan bickering to halt a bill that would have …
Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5532d ago
My favorite part of The Gazette is “Today in History”: Aug. 7, 1964: The U.S. Senate, with an 88-2 vote, …
Letters to the Editor Aug. 10, 2010 12:01 am5532d ago
Marriage, according to my dictionary, is “the social institution under which a man and woman establish their decision to live …
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