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After half a century of sending letters to the editor and a few guest columns, I’m thinking of hanging up …
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 …
The prostitution problem in Iowa has moved from the streets to online, but still is prevalent in our community. Prostitutes …
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