Flashing lights tinge our bedroom mini-blinds. Clock by the bed says 2:30 a.m. Peering out the window, two large city …
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Andrea and David Novak Letters to the Editor Jan. 8, 2023 7:00 am1075d ago
Flashing lights tinge our bedroom mini-blinds. Clock by the bed says 2:30 a.m. Peering out the window, two large city …
Letters to the Editor Jan. 8, 2023 7:00 am1075d ago
Another gun headline in the news. “Half of the U.S. goes permit less on guns — Fear of violence grows.” …
Letters to the Editor Jan. 8, 2023 7:00 am1075d ago
I didn’t even have to read the whole Dec. 28 Cal Thomas diatribe, as part of one sentence jumped out …
Tim Bickel
Letters to the Editor Jan. 6, 2023 6:00 am1078d ago
In the wake of 60 million deaths in the womb the last 50 years, and now the 2022 U.S. Supreme …
Curt Zingula
Letters to the Editor Jan. 5, 2023 6:00 am1079d ago
Because my rural backyard was examined as a potential route for a CO2 pipeline, I have considerable appreciation for the …
Letters to the Editor Jan. 4, 2023 6:00 am1080d ago
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one taking issue withe the Cal Thomas’ Dec. 22 op-ed. His statement, to me, …
Gretchen Reeh-Robinson
Letters to the Editor Jan. 4, 2023 6:00 am1080d ago
Thank you for the front page story (“Cedar Rapids homeless encampment bulldozed by city, Dec. 31) that tells us more …
Steven Pokorny
Letters to the Editor Jan. 3, 2023 6:00 am1081d ago
Senator Ernst wrote on Twitter that the “budget process is completely broken” and that the omnibus bill is just “a …
Letters to the Editor Jan. 3, 2023 6:00 am1081d ago
Thanks to The Gazette for running Cal Thomas’ column promoting the Great Replacement Theory. Thomas has revealed himself and the …
Letters to the Editor Jan. 2, 2023 6:00 am1082d ago
Cal Thomas’s column decrying the Jan. 6 Committee is full of more holes than Steve Bannon’s five miles of private …
Letters to the Editor Jan. 2, 2023 6:00 am1082d ago
Cal Thomas’ op ed on Dec. 22 compared the migration of people through Mexico to the use of cream in …
Chet Sullivan
Letters to the Editor Jan. 1, 2023 7:00 am1082d ago
In his recent letter, Fred Hubler pointed out, “There is growing awareness that industrial wind and solar require large areas, …
John Lawrence Hanson
Letters to the Editor Jan. 1, 2023 7:00 am1082d ago
What is our moral obligation for the trash we make? Garbage is a strange gift we bequeath to future generations. …
Bob Opplinger
Letters to the Editor Jan. 1, 2023 7:00 am1082d ago
For those who don’t know the definition of duplicitous, here it is. Ashley Hinson! Congresswomen Hinson wants to have it …
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