Stacey Walker radiates the energy our county needs to lead and is the best candidate for our open Linn County …
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David Tominsky Letters to the Editor Sep. 19, 2016 1:00 am3287d ago
Stacey Walker radiates the energy our county needs to lead and is the best candidate for our open Linn County …
Kurt Maas Letters to the Editor Sep. 19, 2016 1:00 am3287d ago
The Gazette’s editorial calling on Iowa Republican leaders to elevate principle over partisanship with regard to criticizing Donald Trump’s recent …
Edna Brunkhorst
Letters to the Editor Sep. 19, 2016 1:00 am3287d ago
All of us pay taxes, whether on clothing, telephone, furniture or on our taxable income. None of us want our …
Dale Fitzgibbons
Letters to the Editor Sep. 18, 2016 1:00 am3288d ago
When we spend a dollar on a good or a service we say we obtained a dollar’s worth of value …
Randy Groepper
Letters to the Editor Sep. 18, 2016 1:00 am3288d ago
It irritates me that just because I disagree with a candidates’ political philosophy, I must be a racist, a sexist, …
Joe Sheller
Letters to the Editor Sep. 18, 2016 1:00 am3288d ago
The ‘we’re sorry” subtext of Todd Dorman’s column (‘Getting it wrong on immigration since 1895,” Sept. 11) might be a …
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Polly Shive Pagliai
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2016 1:00 am3289d ago
Please join the first Art of Recovery walk Sept. 25, sponsored by Prelude (formally MECCA). September is National Recovery Month. …
Robert Ritscher
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2016 1:00 am3289d ago
I am a farmer, Farm Bureau board member, county voting delegate and Benton County Soil and Water Commissioner. We help …
Dale Walter
Letters to the Editor Sep. 17, 2016 1:00 am3289d ago
I recently read The Gazette’s article about Monica Vernon’s tour of the Iron Workers Local 89 training center and was …
Sara Riley
Letters to the Editor Sep. 16, 2016 1:00 am3290d ago
Congressman Rod Blum’s Aug. 31 Gazette ad portrays Blum as a bipartisan advocate for Iowa. Knowing Blum’s far right record …
Virginia Melroy
Letters to the Editor Sep. 16, 2016 1:00 am3290d ago
Once again the Iowa Utilities Board has sided with Dakota Access in allowing the company to build its dangerous pipeline …
Rich Zeis
Letters to the Editor Sep. 16, 2016 1:00 am3290d ago
When Richard Nixon destroyed evidence and lied about it in 1974, we kicked him out of the White House. In …
Jon Custis
Letters to the Editor Sep. 15, 2016 1:00 am3291d ago
On Sept. 1, I went to the Jones County Courthouse for a town-hall meeting to confront Sen. Chuck Grassley on …
Norm Sterzenbauch
Letters to the Editor Sep. 15, 2016 1:00 am3291d ago
The American worker is the backbone of our economy and the middle class. When our leaders don’t support and uplift …
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