My brother Marty lived in Minnesota in 1994 when Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion came to life on Minnesota Public …
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David H. Burke Letters to the Editor Jan. 23, 2017 12:00 am3259d ago
My brother Marty lived in Minnesota in 1994 when Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion came to life on Minnesota Public …
Mary Chilton Letters to the Editor Jan. 23, 2017 12:00 am3259d ago
Nothing illustrates the rot currently infecting the Republican party more than the glitzy New Year’s Eve bash at Donald Trump’s …
Robert J. Boes
Letters to the Editor Jan. 22, 2017 12:00 am3260d ago
Imagine the excitement of a child who is told that due to some improbable turn of fate he can now …
Ed Flaherty
Letters to the Editor Jan. 22, 2017 12:00 am3260d ago
The atmosphere of fear, distrust, anger, and, for some, celebration, permeates our present and obscures clear thinking. We lose sight …
Anthony Robinson
Letters to the Editor Jan. 22, 2017 12:00 am3260d ago
While Americans are wondering where things will be heading with the coming administration, it is heartening that Sen. Chuck Grassley …
Austin Wadle
Letters to the Editor Jan. 21, 2017 12:00 am3261d ago
Since I turned 18 I have voted in every election I was able to. This includes general elections and primaries, …
Fr. Ignatius Valentine
Letters to the Editor Jan. 21, 2017 12:00 am3261d ago
In acknowledgment of the divisiveness, mistrust, alienation and anger that festers in our society, more than a dozen Iowa City-area …
Terry Moran
Letters to the Editor Jan. 20, 2017 12:00 am3262d ago
In the Iowa Statehouse, we are seeing the recurring Republican ‘tax cut/cut services” cycle. They are cutting spending for higher …
Laurie J. Slocum
Letters to the Editor Jan. 20, 2017 12:00 am3262d ago
Change is about to happen with Donald Trump becoming president. It might be a good change or it might not …
Cindy Garlock
Letters to the Editor Jan. 20, 2017 12:00 am3262d ago
Our governor has suddenly changed course and has decided that state-run medical programs aren’t so bad after all. Gov. Terry …
Larry Hodgden
Letters to the Editor Jan. 19, 2017 12:00 am3263d ago
‘Sad” to see Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus fold up their tent after 147 years of entertaining us. …
Clara Hardiman
Letters to the Editor Jan. 19, 2017 12:00 am3263d ago
Marilyn Davenport, Denise Mineck and Velga Easker: The ‘hounds have been released’ frightening many of us. Your participation in the …
John Carver
Letters to the Editor Jan. 19, 2017 12:00 am3263d ago
No need to go elsewhere when privatization is the go-to solution. Nothing is off the table – health care, schools, …
Joel Snell
Letters to the Editor Jan. 18, 2017 12:00 am3264d ago
Dear President Obama, thank you. Joel Snell Cedar Rapids
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