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David Helman Letters to the Editor Jul. 25, 2025 6:00 am205d 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 am205d 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 am206d 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 am207d 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 am208d 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 am208d 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 am209d ago
After I knock on a Meals on Wheels client’s door, I ask, “How are you doing?” Yesterday one client’s answer …
Jeffrey Schaefer
Letters to the Editor Jul. 21, 2025 6:00 am209d ago
What do the Republican and Democratic Parties have in common? They spend money like they have it. The goals of …
Jo Pearson
Letters to the Editor Jul. 20, 2025 6:00 am210d ago
What a sad outcome, to read that the University of Iowa will abandon its longtime lease for the Macbride Nature …
James McCoy
Letters to the Editor Jul. 20, 2025 6:00 am210d ago
In the Old Testament of the Bible pharaoh and the Egyptians clung to enslavement of the Israelites despite plagues of …
Gerald Ott
Letters to the Editor Jul. 20, 2025 6:00 am210d ago
I don’t know letter writer Willard Salemink of West Liberty, but I hear he is well known as owner and …
Eric Johnson
Letters to the Editor Jul. 20, 2025 6:00 am210d ago
As the father of an 8-year-old daughter, I’m following the Texas Hill Country floods with a sick feeling in my …
Fred Easker
Letters to the Editor Jul. 20, 2025 6:00 am210d ago
During the bank bailouts 2008 the phrase “privatize the profits, socialize the losses” came to describe crony capitalism. It seems an …
Adam Cooper
Letters to the Editor Jul. 17, 2025 6:00 am213d ago
Thank you to The Gazette for its articles opposing the Big Beautiful Bill. They have generated editorials and letters decrying …
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