If this health care reform law is so great, then why would President Barak Obama in his Iowa City speech …
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If this health care reform law is so great, then why would President Barak Obama in his Iowa City speech …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Apr. 7, 2010 12:56 am5763d ago
It’s important to distinguish between triggers and causes. We are in a lull between storms. In fact, the world is …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 7, 2010 12:56 am5763d ago
During the recent high-profile raid on a dog-breeding facility near Wyoming, we learned not everything is as it might be …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 7, 2010 12:55 am5763d ago
Now the City Council wants to pay for appraisals of every home in the flood area buyout, in hopes that …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 7, 2010 12:53 am5763d ago
I have been waiting two years for The Gazette’s March 27 editorial about Honey Creek. Our family used to rent …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 7, 2010 12:00 am5763d ago
I had the opportunity to read the March 29 article regarding the loss of two soccer fields at Jones Park, …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 6, 2010 12:57 am5764d ago
It is a pity that there are not machines the county maintenance department could use to retrieve our tax dollars …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 6, 2010 12:55 am5764d ago
Leonard Pitts Jr. (March 28 column) suggests an excuse in case health care rhetoric causes “some disgruntled opponent of health …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 6, 2010 12:54 am5764d ago
The communitywide effort to kick off Shelter House’s Endowment Campaign did indeed raise the roof at the Johnson County Fair …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 6, 2010 12:53 am5764d ago
I have been reading that many who oppose the health care reform law do so because it takes power away …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 5, 2010 12:59 am5765d ago
Many years ago, when I was still a Republican, a fellow party member confided in me his fear that the …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 5, 2010 12:58 am5765d ago
There may be valid concerns about the health care reform law but one so-called argument that is asinine is to …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 5, 2010 12:55 am5765d ago
I write to let Tim O’Brien of Fayette (regarding his March 30 letter) know that I support prohibiting insurers from …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 5, 2010 12:01 am5765d ago
More people are in need of mental health services than ever before. We had inadequate funding 20 years ago but …
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