Iowa needs a moratorium on new and expanding CAFOs. I am not suggesting totally dismantling an entire industry, I am …
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Kenn Bowen Letters to the Editor Feb. 16, 2021 5:23 pm1827d ago
Iowa needs a moratorium on new and expanding CAFOs. I am not suggesting totally dismantling an entire industry, I am …
Palmer Holden Letters to the Editor Feb. 16, 2021 9:13 am1828d ago
Chuck Schumer and the Dems are living in an alternative universe. You lost, quit whining! I should be amazed that …
Darryl Syverson
Letters to the Editor Feb. 16, 2021 9:13 am1828d ago
The Republican Party is now the Rationalization party. To avoid voting guilty, our two senators used the excuse that Donald …
Matt Brandt
Letters to the Editor Feb. 16, 2021 9:13 am1828d ago
I am very confused and disappointed by Sen. Chuck Grassley attempting to justify his major positions over the past few …
Gary Ellis
Letters to the Editor Feb. 14, 2021 3:33 pm1829d ago
Parents should have the ability to pick the school in which they wish their children to be educated. Vouchers should …
Susan Enzle
Letters to the Editor Feb. 14, 2021 3:33 pm1829d ago
I was educated in a rural public school in Iowa and always took pride in Iowa’s long history of support …
Stella Siver
Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2021 12:00 am1831d ago
The ten steps that are in front of my house were heavily drifted over the morning after a recent snowstorm. …
Matt Shaffer
Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2021 12:00 am1831d ago
The end of ethanol is approaching more rapidly than people may believe. It is very apparent the future will be …
Larry Brummel
Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2021 12:00 am1831d ago
I am a 74-year-old retired pharmacist and have lived in Iowa all of my life. I owned and operated a …
Peggy Stover
Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2021 12:00 am1831d ago
In the 1963 ‘March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” civil rights leaders recognized that income was critical in the …
Helen Huedepohl
Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2021 12:00 am1831d ago
Do we have a ‘right” to take the life of another human without due process of the law? I feel …
Lindsay Talsness
Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2021 12:00 am1831d ago
As I drove around Cedar Rapids recently, amid the impressive piles of snow – my mind turned toward spring. But, …
Angela Weiland
Letters to the Editor Feb. 10, 2021 5:17 pm1833d ago
Iowa Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst; please vote to convict and disqualify Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 attack …
Diane Duncan-Goldsmith
Letters to the Editor Feb. 10, 2021 9:18 am1834d ago
It has taken Gov. Kim Reynolds about 10 months to wave her white flag when it comes to actively showing …
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