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Gary Waterbeck Letters to the Editor Apr. 2, 2017 1:00 am3091d ago
To vote in Iowa, you have to be a registered voter. To register, you have to show a government issued …
Dale Muller Letters to the Editor Apr. 2, 2017 1:00 am3091d ago
We have seen the Republican-controlled Iowa House and Senate decrease the bargaining power of state employees. I hope that all …
Janet Wagner
Letters to the Editor Apr. 1, 2017 1:00 am3092d ago
What does deconstruction of the administrative state mean? Steve Bannon says the ‘cabinet nominees were selected for a reason and …
Dorris H. Hotchkiss
Letters to the Editor Apr. 1, 2017 1:00 am3092d ago
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is pushing for a program to require voter identification. I would request that he …
Brandon Ross
Letters to the Editor Apr. 1, 2017 1:00 am3092d ago
In an evaluation of 11 rich countries by Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. came in last in overall health outcomes and …
Grant Harper
Letters to the Editor Mar. 31, 2017 1:00 am3093d ago
Unfortunately, politicians and partisans of all types would rather continue ‘the health care issue,” along with its controversy, rather than …
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Katie Roche
Letters to the Editor Mar. 31, 2017 1:00 am3093d ago
The proposed, tired and old idea of eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts should be soundly rejected on a …
Hugo Kann
Letters to the Editor Mar. 31, 2017 1:00 am3093d ago
We were recently notified by the City of Marion that the longtime practice of granting a discount on their waste …
Macy Dusanek
Letters to the Editor Mar. 30, 2017 1:00 am3094d ago
Hello, my name is Macy. The Ely’s Stone Bridge is a big part of my life because it is pretty …
Dean Varner
Letters to the Editor Mar. 30, 2017 1:00 am3094d ago
In a Feb. 24 guest column (‘What if everybody had a gun?”), retired professor Jozef Figa fantasized about a hypothetical …
Bob Sprengeler
Letters to the Editor Mar. 30, 2017 1:00 am3094d ago
Sen. Chuck Grassley, at a recent forum you gave President Donald Trump a B-plus or A-minus for his actions since …
Margaret Bartlett
Letters to the Editor Mar. 28, 2017 1:00 am3096d ago
Bipartisan investigators have determined there is no evidence to back up President Donald Trump’s wiretapping claims against President Barack Obama. …
Dean Barnum
Letters to the Editor Mar. 28, 2017 1:00 am3096d ago
My ex favorite political party is moving radically to the right and unless stopped will bump into the nationalistic philosophies …
Craig J. Dzikonski
Letters to the Editor Mar. 28, 2017 1:00 am3096d ago
As both of my friends spent spring break somewhere other than Cedar Rapids, I was left alone trying to make …
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