City election 2009 is not over yet in Cedar Rapids. There’s an at-large council race and a District 3 doozy …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Nov. 19, 2009 11:39 pm5902d ago
City election 2009 is not over yet in Cedar Rapids. There’s an at-large council race and a District 3 doozy …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Nov. 19, 2009 11:37 pm5902d ago
Regarding Charles Krauthammer’s Nov. 15 column “Medicalizing mass murder”: The horrific massacre at Fort Hood is an example of how …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 19, 2009 11:30 pm5902d ago
Regarding Charles Krauthammer’s Nov. 15 column “Medicalizing mass murder”: The horrific massacre at Fort Hood is an example of how …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 19, 2009 11:29 pm5902d ago
Thank you to the tax-and-spend Republicans who pushed Johnson County to spend $75,000 on an election to fill a Board …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 19, 2009 11:28 pm5902d ago
I recently replaced the incandescent bulb in the lamp next to my bed with a CFL that was comparable to …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 19, 2009 11:26 pm5902d ago
Joyce Deboy (Nov. 15 letter) wants us to believe that it is “un-American” to force others to obey beliefs. She …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 18, 2009 11:36 pm5903d ago
I am impressed with Kirsten Running-Marquardt, who is running for the District 33 seat in the Iowa House of Representatives …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 18, 2009 11:35 pm5903d ago
Last week the city of Cedar Rapids received good news, much needed. First, the Urban Land Institute concluded in its …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 18, 2009 11:34 pm5903d ago
All this talk about socialism is nonsense. Our government has been on the side of the elites for the last …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 18, 2009 11:30 pm5903d ago
As I experienced the 234th birthday of my beloved Marine Corps on the 10th and reflected on the 91st anniversary …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 17, 2009 11:34 pm5904d ago
Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, deserves our gratitude for standing up for working Americans. When he voted for the U.S. House …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 17, 2009 11:32 pm5904d ago
to read that the U.S. House of Representatives let an amendment make it into the recently passed health care reform …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 17, 2009 11:31 pm5904d ago
Whoever wrote your Nov. 5 editorial on the “dismal” Iowa City election turnout is clueless. As I wrote to The …
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Letters to the Editor Nov. 17, 2009 11:30 pm5904d ago
I’m pleased that Lou Dobbs has left CNN. In recent years, he had crossed the line into paranoia. A bigoted, …
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