I’m writing to clarify some recent press regarding Kirkwood instructor Jeff Klinzman and the antifa movement. Antifa primarily participate in …
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Amanda Nichols Letters to the Editor Sep. 3, 2019 8:18 am2302d ago
I’m writing to clarify some recent press regarding Kirkwood instructor Jeff Klinzman and the antifa movement. Antifa primarily participate in …
Jim Walters Letters to the Editor Sep. 3, 2019 7:00 am2302d ago
Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann says ‘the Trump economy is almost too good to be true.” His party …
Scott Peterson
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The gun violence that we saw in El Paso and Dayton could just as easily have happened here in Iowa. …
Susan Armitage
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It is always a joy to watch skilled, well-trained people perform their jobs, making the difficult look effortless. Recently I …
Charles R. Crawley
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In Cal Thomas’s syndicated column, ‘Mass murders are a symptom,” Aug. 11, he quotes Alexander Solzhenitsyn in support of Thomas’s …
Matt Tapscott
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Iowans are much smarter than the National Republican Senatorial Committee thinks we are. Hardworking Iowans actually care about the facts …
Randy Jacobson
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When Sen. Joni Ernst launched her re-election campaign, both she and Sen. Chuck Grassley spoke about their agenda to stack …
Julie Heath
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Like the Statue of Liberty, we really need to stand firm in the values that made America great to begin …
Ray Buck
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Health care for all was first proposed in 1937. I read with great interest The Gazette’s Aug. 9 Fact Checker …
Tom Janik
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Nate Willems calling Mallard Fillmore a racist in a recent letter is right out of the latest Democratic playbook. It …
Mia Farrell
Letters to the Editor Aug. 29, 2019 3:41 pm2306d ago
I am writing in sincere hopes that you will consider standing up for and supporting Jeff Klinzman. I understand that …
Judy Ryan
Letters to the Editor Sep. 3, 2019 7:14 pm2301d ago
John Kass claimed in his column in the Gazette August 25 that Democrats had their ‘hopes crushed” by the Mueller …
Patricia Malinke
Letters to the Editor Aug. 28, 2019 5:19 pm2307d ago
The Gazette’s August 2 editorial about revisions to Iowa’s campaign finance disclosure system highlighted one problem but overlooked another. In …
Linda Svoboda
Letters to the Editor Aug. 27, 2019 5:03 pm2308d ago
President Donald Trump allowed a profoundly important agreement to expire this month – the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Analysts …
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