I love Iowa pork, but I hate Washington pork. At a time when our country is fighting so hard to …
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Mark Havlicek Opinion Sep. 16, 2021 4:47 pm1556d ago
I love Iowa pork, but I hate Washington pork. At a time when our country is fighting so hard to …
Aaron Rivera Opinion Sep. 15, 2021 3:49 pm1557d ago
Self delusion is an amazing thing to behold! Three examples … 1. President Biden said his Afghanistan exit was an …
Pat Minor
Opinion Sep. 15, 2021 3:48 pm1557d ago
Gaza is a small sliver of land between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, with a tiny slice of land bordering …
Cassidy Walter
Opinion Sep. 14, 2021 2:50 pm1558d ago
Just as we know it won’t be long before Iowa weather changes, we can always count on it not being …
Ed Flaherty
Opinion Sep. 12, 2021 6:00 am1560d ago
The images of Sept. 11, 2001 are etched in our minds. But we need to be more concerned with what …
Lowell Rutz
Opinion Sep. 10, 2021 5:37 pm1562d ago
A recent letter criticized the appearance of front yards of a number of homes in Cedar Rapids. I plead guilty! …
Paul Deaton
Opinion Sep. 9, 2021 5:38 pm1563d ago
During the 2020 primary with the late Bobby Schilling, Mariannette Miller-Meeks was heartless. She took an extremist right turn away …
Charlotte Fairlie
Opinion Sep. 8, 2021 4:31 pm1564d ago
Last week, as my granddaughters returned to school with no guarantee that their classmates will be responsibly masked, I thought …
John Neff
Opinion Sep. 2, 2021 4:04 pm1570d ago
Andrew Boettger, the chair of the Iowa Board of Parole, has set a goal of reducing the prison population by …
Jane Cranston
Opinion Sep. 1, 2021 10:20 am1571d ago
President Joe Biden made the right choice. After 20 years, the war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, …
Palmer Holden
Opinion Sep. 1, 2021 10:20 am1571d ago
How different nationalities respond to screw-ups. The British resign in disgrace. But Americans spin it to pad their resume’s. It’s …
Gretchen Reeh-Robinson
Opinion Sep. 1, 2021 10:20 am1571d ago
When a person repeats something, she may be trying to convince herself that she believes what she’s saying. Gov. Kim …
Hal Penick
Opinion Aug. 31, 2021 8:34 am1572d ago
It must drive Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Legislature crazy that the mainstream media refuses to highlight their efforts to …
Ted Wernimont
Opinion Aug. 31, 2021 8:34 am1572d ago
I have no original thoughts, no ideas about Afghanistan. I have only profound ambivalence about how much we accomplished with …
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