While I agree with Laura Behrens that Nick Reding’s book, “Methland,” has severe editing flaws, Reding is right on the …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2009 12:45 am5910d ago
While I agree with Laura Behrens that Nick Reding’s book, “Methland,” has severe editing flaws, Reding is right on the …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2009 12:44 am5910d ago
Liberals, social progressives, Marxists, leftists, socialists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the 1950s but the …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 31, 2009 12:43 am5910d ago
With all the controversy over health care change, two unanswered questions are stuck in my mind: 1. Why must a …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2009 12:24 am5911d ago
I suggest that two libraries be built in Cedar Rapids and that a contest be run among local architectural firms …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2009 12:23 am5911d ago
It’s too bad that with all the important issues facing our country, the media is obsessing about a black Harvard …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2009 12:21 am5911d ago
Kudos to the Czech Plus Band for another memorable concert in Czech Village. “A tribute to Whoopee John Wilfahrt, America’s …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2009 12:19 am5911d ago
The “greatest health-care system in the world” now has 46 million people without health insurance. According to 2009 health data …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2009 12:17 am5911d ago
In his July 23 letter, the president of the Iowa Farmers Union said support the carbon emission bill to reduce …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 30, 2009 12:01 am5911d ago
I saw an article in your paper honoring our various skateboarders from around the area. I live on a street …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 29, 2009 12:01 am5912d ago
The old story about Canadians coming to the U.S. for health care turned up in a June 24 letter (“to …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 29, 2009 12:01 am5912d ago
The Obama administration and our Democratic Congress, in seven short months, have done more to damage this great country of …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 29, 2009 12:01 am5912d ago
If the U.S. House/President Obama health insurance plan passes, we get: l A government option that does not have to …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 29, 2009 12:01 am5912d ago
I was almost moved to tears by the image of Iowa bankers working so tirelessly to protect the little guy …
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Letters to the Editor Jul. 29, 2009 12:01 am5912d ago
So the city council and the Downtown District have decided among themselves, contrary to the caution being urged by the …
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