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This letter is a commentary regarding The Gazette’s editorial about 4-H diversity (‘Rural groups can’t afford to resist diversity,” April …
My daughter teaches middle school in Berthoud, Colo. On May 7 she was sitting in a meeting when police officers …
My parents, John and Cecelia (Kelly) Griffin, had just moved to Cedar Rapids from Anamosa where my dad had been …
Cedar Rapids just lost two young men to gun violence and two more are in the hospital. Every day, 100 …
Just as there is no such thing as a dumb question in a learning situation, surely there is no such …
I can tell you why it is taking so long for our city streets to be repaired. The crews are …
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