On Dec 13, the day Sarah McDonald’s guest column “Settlements, attacks drive out Palestinians” was published, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed, …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Dec. 28, 2009 11:48 pm5863d ago
On Dec 13, the day Sarah McDonald’s guest column “Settlements, attacks drive out Palestinians” was published, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed, …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Dec. 28, 2009 11:47 pm5863d ago
The recent killing of a lone mountain lion in Iowa County needs to be addressed and questioned. Mountain lions are …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 28, 2009 11:46 pm5863d ago
In a well-documented statement, Al Gore (on “Tonight Show”) said the temperature deep in the earth is 1 million degrees …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 28, 2009 11:45 pm5863d ago
Though the health care reform bill near passage isn’t everything those of us who have fought hard for reform had …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 27, 2009 11:41 pm5864d ago
Iowa Republican legislators would like to bring more oversight and transparency to the people of Iowa concerning where and how …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 27, 2009 11:39 pm5864d ago
The shooting of a cougar south of Marengo and the subsequent picture published in the Dec. 16 Gazette was an …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 27, 2009 11:38 pm5864d ago
I think all of us should applaud Iowa AFSCME for the way the union responded to Iowa’s loss of tax …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 27, 2009 11:36 pm5864d ago
I have learned that most of the time my agitation about the slant of a news story results from the …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 27, 2009 11:35 pm5864d ago
I am listening once again to the beautiful music of the Prairie High School bands and choral choirs on WMT …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 27, 2009 11:34 pm5864d ago
Regarding Marty Sixt’s Dec. 21 column “Clear out our current politicians”: The root cause of our problems is that government …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 27, 2009 11:32 pm5864d ago
With my apologies to the many unselfish people born between 1946 and 1964, what a self-indulgent generation the baby boomers …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 26, 2009 11:59 pm5865d ago
Some people were actually upset that Republican Congressman Tom Latham of Iowa last month proposed a bill that would keep …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 26, 2009 11:58 pm5865d ago
It is amazing how many average Americans happily vote for Republicans who will make their lives more difficult. Republicans voted …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 26, 2009 11:57 pm5865d ago
It appears to me that the American system of special interest-driven politics, combined with the constant need for politicians to …
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