Letters to the Editor

In 2014 Mount Vernon High School sent its first team to the State Science Olympiad competition and came home with …

I’m so glad we have lawyers. One says Cedar Rapids should no longer use traffic cameras and another that they …

The U.S. Congress has priorities without which other Constitutional corrections cannot be made and requirements cannot be fulfilled. They will …

Each year, 22 billion gallons of toxic, untreated waste are discharged onto our land from the thousands of corporate-sponsored hog …

Questions for the Cedar Rapids City Council. We cannot go back and change the decision made on turning a nine-hole …

I was struck by Regent Bruce Rastetter’s quote about ‘whether (Iowa) can afford all the education it has” (‘Regents seek …

In ‘Smaller, smarter? Not hardly” (April 19), guest columnist Steve Corbin says that Iowa’s Republican lawmakers have turned the state …

State, county and local mental health services in Iowa are stretched thin and increasingly difficult to obtain and/or pay for. …

Mercifully, for the average Iowan, this legislative session has ended and it’s eight months before Ken Rizer returns to Des …

There are many people crying about the speed cameras and how unfair they are. The is ridiculous. The speed limit …

With all the budget cuts to this year, I am outraged that Republicans gave $150,000 in taxpayer money for the …

With lack of federal funding and revenue shortfalls, the legislature made deep cuts to vital services, from public education and …