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Dee Anderson Letters to the Editor Mar. 24, 2019 7:00 am2524d ago
Massive hugs and truckloads of thanks to our tireless city crews, who worked long hours throughout this brutal winter spreading …
Mike Hall Letters to the Editor Mar. 24, 2019 7:00 am2524d ago
Syndicated Columnist Leonard Pitts recently lamented that our society has ‘given up our right to know” and has been ‘fooled, …
Gary L. Roberts
Letters to the Editor Mar. 23, 2019 7:00 am2525d ago
All of this talk about spending billions on a border wall is a lot of nonsense. We have a national …
Dale Fitzgibbons
Letters to the Editor Mar. 22, 2019 4:00 am2527d ago
A recent letter criticizing President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration launched a salvo of half truths (‘Emergency declaration is a …
Joyce Dietzgen
Letters to the Editor Mar. 22, 2019 4:00 am2527d ago
I am curious about Scott Burnett’s point, exactly, when he wrote ‘ … in common with the welfare queens the …
Eileen McDermott
Letters to the Editor Mar. 21, 2019 5:30 am2527d ago
Why was Malik Muhammad let out of jail in April 2008? (‘Man tortured with hot iron, robbed at gunpoint in …
Daron Wilson
Letters to the Editor Mar. 21, 2019 5:30 am2527d ago
Iowa is the nation’s top producer of homegrown biofuels, and those of us who work in the industry are proud …
Jaimie Gargas
Letters to the Editor Mar. 20, 2019 5:00 am2528d ago
A nearly 20 percent increase in consumer prices in a situation where, for most customers, there is no choice of …
Jane and Larry Jenkins
Letters to the Editor Mar. 20, 2019 5:00 am2528d ago
We have all read letters about an anonymous person or people paying a restaurant bill. Such a wonderful gesture! And …
Dennis Feldmann
Letters to the Editor Mar. 19, 2019 5:00 am2529d ago
As a Cedar Rapids resident who drives through two speed cameras nearly every day, I do not believe the statistics …
Jeremy Brigham
Letters to the Editor Mar. 19, 2019 5:00 am2529d ago
Stacey Abrams’ response to the President’s State of the Union address picked up on at least two issues he neglected …
Jim Broten
Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2019 3:00 am2531d ago
I drive by an old house every day while going to work. It is slowly getting better and better. I …
Kathy Huegli
Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2019 3:00 am2531d ago
Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from lack of health insurance. And nearly half of American adults under …
William Mulcahey
Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2019 3:00 am2531d ago
Our president went AWOL on the Otto Warmbier tragedy. A young college student, publicly humiliated on state TV in North …
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