In a noble effort to protect the hearing of Iowans our legislature allowed the possession of firearms noise suppressors. Then …
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Rich Patterson Letters to the Editor Jul. 6, 2017 10:46 am3094d ago
In a noble effort to protect the hearing of Iowans our legislature allowed the possession of firearms noise suppressors. Then …
Dewayne Fields Letters to the Editor Jul. 6, 2017 10:46 am3094d ago
To the metro area: You are now experiencing what it is like to have a war zone outside your bedroom …
Charlotte Briggs
Letters to the Editor Jul. 6, 2017 10:45 am3094d ago
Before former Gov. Terry Branstad left for China he signed the bill that made it possible for out-of-state vendors to …
Tarrill Abney
Letters to the Editor Jul. 5, 2017 1:00 am3095d ago
When Ashley Hinson spoke at the President Donald Trump campaign rally, she spoke of how hard she worked as a …
Jim Voss
Letters to the Editor Jul. 5, 2017 1:00 am3095d ago
To the golf department: Instead of trying to find ways to increase play and increase pace of play, the golf …
Connie Ondracek
Letters to the Editor Jul. 4, 2017 1:00 am3096d ago
Regarding the June 26 article ‘Two-way frustration: One-way conversion hits a snag”: The part ‘but as traffic declined, city leaders …
Sue Dirks
Letters to the Editor Jul. 3, 2017 1:00 am3097d ago
Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, …
Philip Blumberg
Letters to the Editor Jul. 3, 2017 1:00 am3097d ago
When Legislators finished their budgets in April, they appropriated $96,138 to Prevent Blindness Iowa – an organization that provides vision …
Marc Franke
Letters to the Editor Jul. 2, 2017 1:00 am3098d ago
In Iowa, there were three companies offering health care insurance policies in the insurance marketplace. Two have dropped out and …
Bert and Jean Graham
Letters to the Editor Jul. 2, 2017 1:00 am3098d ago
President Donald Trump campaigned for the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the Washington swamp has resisted. Gov. Terry Branstad signed a …
Emma Aquino-Nemecek
Letters to the Editor Jul. 2, 2017 1:00 am3098d ago
I saw a report on the news where they said that Iowans were so mad over Congress repealing Obamacare that …
Shirley Ruedy
Letters to the Editor Jul. 1, 2017 1:00 am3099d ago
The place rocked. The place rolled. The Million Dollar Quartet threw themselves into it with all the verve and audacity …
Bob Untiedt
Letters to the Editor Jun. 30, 2017 1:00 am3100d ago
I object to the space given Hugh Hewitt in the June 18 edition (‘Real world doesn’t care much for ‘news’ …
Sonia Ettinger
Letters to the Editor Jun. 30, 2017 1:00 am3100d ago
America will not be great or strong if the population is sick, poor and lacking in adequate reproductive care. The …
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