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I just read Joe Murphy’s Guest column in The Gazette (“Modernized tax system will make Iowa competitive,” Feb. 2) and …
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In her editorial column (“Iowa parents deserve a choice,” Jan. 26), Patricia Patnode used her platform to misrepresent “school choice” …
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On Jan. 27 guest columnist, Nicholas Johnson, (“’Freedom’ is not free. Others are paying for it”) poses a question of …
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Sixteen current Republican senators have previously voted for reauthorizations of the Voting Rights Act, but they now refuse to support …
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Thank you to The Cedar Rapids Gazette for continuing to churn out a daily paper. In these days of continued …
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COVID-19 has hit Iowa’s child care industry very hard. Centers have closed. Infected providers stopped working. Workforce shortages and increase …
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As a citizen of Strawberry Point since 1974 and an employee of the Starmont school system until my retirement three …
Sonia Ettinger
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Could there be a relationship between tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations, and the amount of money that …
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Jan. 22 marked the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the constitutional right it established is under attack like …
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I got my first library card in 1959 and have been reading ever since. When I was young, teachers kept …
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I have a two words for Sen. Jake Chapman regarding his ongoing tirade against teachers’ and librarians’ “sinister agenda” to …
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