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Larry was killed in a car accident nearly a half-century ago. Now, when I see his grave, I remember the …
Our soldiers are shedding their blood for us. Our government is sucking the blood from us and we keep electing …
On Dec 13, the day Sarah McDonald’s guest column “Settlements, attacks drive out Palestinians” was published, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed, …
The recent killing of a lone mountain lion in Iowa County needs to be addressed and questioned. Mountain lions are …
In a well-documented statement, Al Gore (on “Tonight Show”) said the temperature deep in the earth is 1 million degrees …
Though the health care reform bill near passage isn’t everything those of us who have fought hard for reform had …
Iowa Republican legislators would like to bring more oversight and transparency to the people of Iowa concerning where and how …
The shooting of a cougar south of Marengo and the subsequent picture published in the Dec. 16 Gazette was an …
I think all of us should applaud Iowa AFSCME for the way the union responded to Iowa’s loss of tax …
I have learned that most of the time my agitation about the slant of a news story results from the …
I am listening once again to the beautiful music of the Prairie High School bands and choral choirs on WMT …
Regarding Marty Sixt’s Dec. 21 column “Clear out our current politicians”: The root cause of our problems is that government …
With my apologies to the many unselfish people born between 1946 and 1964, what a self-indulgent generation the baby boomers …
Some people were actually upset that Republican Congressman Tom Latham of Iowa last month proposed a bill that would keep …
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