As I write this letter, Hillary Clinton is poised to hit 65,000,000 votes. That’s approximately the number of votes President …
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Lawrence Rettig Letters to the Editor Dec. 1, 2016 12:00 am3312d ago
As I write this letter, Hillary Clinton is poised to hit 65,000,000 votes. That’s approximately the number of votes President …
Sandra Eccles Letters to the Editor Nov. 30, 2016 8:41 am3313d ago
The outgoing first family is a shining example of dignity, grace and humility on the highest level throughout these past …
David Jepsen, Richard Dorzweiler, John Rapson, Bob Sessions, Stephen Locher
Letters to the Editor Nov. 30, 2016 8:41 am3313d ago
We are writing in support of your Nov. 17 editorial ‘Somebody missed memo on postelection unity” and in response to …
Robert Henderson
Letters to the Editor Nov. 29, 2016 12:00 am3314d ago
An electoral majority of Americans who exercised their right to vote on Nov. 8 nationally and in the state of …
Mary A. Klotzbach
Letters to the Editor Nov. 29, 2016 12:00 am3314d ago
Donald Trump scolds Saturday Night Live. Response from Iowa: Suck it up, Buttercup! Mary A. Klotzbach Independence
Joseph Spivey
Letters to the Editor Nov. 29, 2016 12:00 am3314d ago
The Democratic Party in Iowa is in the midst of an identity crisis. Energized young professionals entering the world with …
Jan and Albert Hawkins
Letters to the Editor Nov. 28, 2016 12:00 am3315d ago
On Nov. 11 my husband and I were enjoying dinner at MJ’s in Marion. A young mother and her daughter …
Sharon Hasler
Letters to the Editor Nov. 28, 2016 12:00 am3315d ago
When Ruben Ely, my great-great-grandfather, built his stone bridge in 1893, I doubt that he could have envisioned the importance …
Selma Brigham
Letters to the Editor Nov. 27, 2016 12:00 am3316d ago
It was with dismay and dread that I read the Washington Post’s report in The Gazette that vice-president-elect Mike Pence …
Donna Myers
Letters to the Editor Nov. 27, 2016 12:00 am3316d ago
Once again, the residents of Cedar Rapids are privy to the wisdom of the gaming commission. Watch as they mull …
Aaron Rivera
Letters to the Editor Nov. 26, 2016 12:00 am3317d ago
Bruce Kempkes asserts in his Nov. 13 guest column that the Supreme Court’s opinion in 1803, Marbury v. Madison, enshrines …
Sam Osborne
Letters to the Editor Nov. 26, 2016 12:00 am3317d ago
The most important agenda item president-elect Donald Trump best plan on pursuing is the encouragement of we the people to …
Harlan Graber
Letters to the Editor Nov. 25, 2016 12:00 am3318d ago
When president-elect Donald Trump declared on his 60 Minutes interview that he would simultaneously repeal that ‘disaster” called Obamacare and …
Rich Hillyer
Letters to the Editor Nov. 25, 2016 12:00 am3318d ago
How do you think the Donald Trump campaign (and all the people who voted for him) would handle the election …
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