Whoever wrote your Nov. 5 editorial on the “dismal” Iowa City election turnout is clueless. As I wrote to The …
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Whoever wrote your Nov. 5 editorial on the “dismal” Iowa City election turnout is clueless. As I wrote to The …
I’m pleased that Lou Dobbs has left CNN. In recent years, he had crossed the line into paranoia. A bigoted, …
Recently, the non-partisan Pew Center for the States, in a report titled “Beyond California: States In Fiscal Peril,” listed Iowa …
Hurrah for the bishops. They are U.S. citizens, too. They are interested in protecting the unborn human life in future …
The writer of a Nov. 4 letter lamented “all the warring, human-to-human violence, suffering, starvation, dissension, discrimination and hate” in …
After all the screaming about how health care reform must not include coverage for “killing babies,” it was revealed that …
I read where the American Medical Association urged the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous …
It’s 8:30 p.m., and another deer has just been hit in front of our house – the third in a …
The spending machine in Washington just keeps grinding away. Let’s say you had a few too many at a party, …
Many critics compare the Obama Administration to Nazi Germany. Here are some facts: The Nazis were invited into the German …
The Linn County Board of Supervisors, with Linda Langston’s upcoming motion, is looking to invest in art for new county …
A vocal, self-proclaimed authority of world climate says Arctic Ocean ice is about to disappear. The latest “Ice Road Truckers” …
On Nov. 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his book, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or …
Given the recent voter decision against same-sex marriage in Maine, what good comes from broad, faceless discrimination against hardworking, taxpaying …
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