President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill includes a sizable amount of money for immigration enforcement. More money does need to be …
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Ida Wiebel Letters to the Editor Jul. 28, 2025 9:46 am140d ago
President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill includes a sizable amount of money for immigration enforcement. More money does need to be …
James Conger Letters to the Editor Jul. 28, 2025 9:45 am140d ago
The Republican excuse to defund National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting System for “liberal bias” is indefensible. Iowa’s Reps. Miller …
Elain Hughes
Letters to the Editor Jul. 27, 2025 6:00 am141d ago
In 2024, Iowa had a rate of 498 cancer cases per 100,000 individuals annually, behind Kentucky (the highest) by only …
Steven Patton
Letters to the Editor Jul. 27, 2025 6:00 am141d ago
Former president Barack Obama gave some advice to his party recently on how to improve the party’s 19% approval rating. …
Alan Jensen
Letters to the Editor Jul. 27, 2025 6:00 am141d ago
Sen. Chuck Grassley has been in Washington since 1975. During that time the national debt soared from a mere $0.5 …
Linda Svoboda
Letters to the Editor Jul. 27, 2025 6:00 am141d ago
My grandniece, whose 3-year-old daughter loves Elmo on Sesame Street, and people who need clean water wells to keep their families …
Ann Marshbanks
Letters to the Editor Jul. 27, 2025 6:00 am141d ago
This is in response to Althea Cole’s opinion piece in the Sunday Gazette (July 13, “Deportation of West Liberty man …
David Helman
Letters to the Editor Jul. 25, 2025 6:00 am143d ago
Because we raised our children with PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) television they are kind, civil, courteous, educated and successful citizens. Viewing …
Paul Lundy
Letters to the Editor Jul. 25, 2025 6:00 am143d ago
I’ll miss The Joy of Painting, PBS News Hour, Monty Python, Dr. Who, Masterpiece Theater, Nature, Nova, Independent Lens, Downton …
Vonda Birchmier
Letters to the Editor Jul. 24, 2025 6:00 am144d ago
I came out of the NE Target store on July 11 to go to my car. A young man, in …
Robert Tosh
Letters to the Editor Jul. 23, 2025 9:15 am145d ago
As a life long member of this community, I am saddened by the transition from clean streets, manicured lawns and …
Brian Claney
Letters to the Editor Jul. 22, 2025 6:00 am146d ago
As our libertine president attempts to deny his sordid past with Jeffrey Epstein, the Iowa congressional delegation and the Christian …
Jeff Klinzman
Letters to the Editor Jul. 22, 2025 6:00 am146d ago
The deportation of Pascual Pedro is illegal and wrong. No amount of concern trolling from Althea Cole will ever convince …
Sheri Albrecht
Letters to the Editor Jul. 21, 2025 9:14 am147d ago
After I knock on a Meals on Wheels client’s door, I ask, “How are you doing?” Yesterday one client’s answer …
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