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Marcia Parmenter Letters to the Editor Mar. 29, 2019 7:00 am2519d ago
A forcible felony is any felonious child endangerment, assault, murder, sexual abuse, kidnapping, robbery, human trafficking, arson in the first …
Glen Walters Letters to the Editor Mar. 28, 2019 9:45 am2520d ago
In response to Bill Vogl’s letter (‘Is tax on electric vehicles fair?” March 17): I feel the same way about …
Dave Speltz
Letters to the Editor Mar. 28, 2019 9:45 am2520d ago
Walter Williams’ recent syndicated column sounded like a bunch of climate change denying rhetoric. Yes, mankind still exists after some …
Jerry Gillon
Letters to the Editor Mar. 27, 2019 8:45 am2521d ago
I was excited to see all of the summer street projects. I’m sure they will be great when completed (‘Paving …
Jim Hessenius
Letters to the Editor Mar. 27, 2019 8:45 am2521d ago
I can’t adequately thank the officers who helped me fix my blown out tire. I was lucky to have this …
Jim Osterhaus
Letters to the Editor Mar. 26, 2019 11:00 am2522d ago
The ‘Iowa Solar Fix” advertisement currently on local TV stations is, at best, deceitful and, at worst, greedy and self-serving. …
Charles Werner
Letters to the Editor Mar. 26, 2019 11:00 am2522d ago
I have subscribed to The Gazette for 61 years. The last 14 years, I’ve been served by local carriers. They …
Calvin Ferner
Letters to the Editor Mar. 25, 2019 7:00 am2523d ago
I am a fourth grade student in North Carolina. In fourth grade, we research a state for our State Fair, …
Jane B. Cranston
Letters to the Editor Mar. 25, 2019 7:00 am2523d ago
You cannot change what you do not acknowledge. It is time to acknowledge climate change. Perhaps the name ‘climate change” …
Laila Aossey
Letters to the Editor Mar. 25, 2019 7:00 am2523d ago
It has been 16 years since Rachel Corrie, an American college student, was crushed to death by a U.S.-made Caterpillar …
Liz O’Hara
Letters to the Editor Mar. 24, 2019 7:01 am2524d ago
When I told a friend 16 years ago I was moving to Iowa, her comment was the Iowans she met …
Erin Owen
Letters to the Editor Mar. 24, 2019 7:00 am2524d ago
Iowa cannot afford the expense required if lawmakers move forward on a resolution to remove the right to abortion in …
Joseph Howe
Letters to the Editor Mar. 24, 2019 7:00 am2524d ago
It is unfortunate to see Republican lawmakers, from the party of limited government, attempting to expand government by limit voter …
Paul Specht
Letters to the Editor Mar. 24, 2019 7:00 am2524d ago
There are four images from television news that stick in my mind. First, the scene inside the Kremlin the morning …
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