Iowans have a tendency to vote for incumbents. We have been granting this privilege to Sen. Chuck Grassley. This time, …
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Laura Twing Letters to the Editor Oct. 2, 2016 1:00 am3372d ago
Iowans have a tendency to vote for incumbents. We have been granting this privilege to Sen. Chuck Grassley. This time, …
Steve Armstrong Letters to the Editor Oct. 2, 2016 1:00 am3372d ago
On Sept. 16, The Gazette published a letter from Sara Riley (‘Facts don’t support Blum’s statements”) making untrue claims regarding …
Dr. Eugene Nassif
Letters to the Editor Oct. 2, 2016 1:00 am3372d ago
I have had the honor to get to know Sen. Chuck Grassley as a member of the American Podiatric Medical …
Ed Dunbar
Letters to the Editor Oct. 2, 2016 1:00 am3372d ago
Please take the time for you, your family, your friends and your neighbors to contact Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office and …
Steven L. Herman
Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2016 1:00 am3373d ago
Let’s build a big casino – no! Then let’s build a blue zone casino – nope again. Maybe we should …
Richard Andersen
Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2016 1:00 am3373d ago
In his Sept. 22 letter ‘To save money at the pump, try E15,” Grant Menke, policy director for the Iowa …
Sayde Alexandrescu
Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2016 1:00 am3373d ago
If we do not have healthy farming practices and grand scale development plans, it is inevitable that we will flood. …
Frank and Mary Olmsted
Letters to the Editor Sep. 30, 2016 1:00 am3374d ago
My husband and I are from St. Charles, where we had a record flood covering most of our area in …
David H. Burke
Letters to the Editor Sep. 30, 2016 1:00 am3374d ago
I really enjoy The Gazette’s Time Machine articles for two reasons. First, as a lifeling resident, I always learn something …
Mary Ann Haley
Letters to the Editor Sep. 29, 2016 1:00 am3375d ago
It’s not if I am going to die on Interstate 380 between Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, it is when. …
Robert E. Buckley
Letters to the Editor Sep. 29, 2016 1:00 am3375d ago
Having just returned from an Eastern Iowa Honor Flight to our nation’s capital, I wish to express my sincere thanks …
Mary Vermillion
Letters to the Editor Sep. 29, 2016 1:00 am3375d ago
I wish The Gazette had not published Mike Lester’s political cartoon in the Saturday, Sept. 24, edition. The cartoonist probably …
Rosemary Weydert
Letters to the Editor Sep. 28, 2016 1:00 am3376d ago
Donald Trump may see the immigration issue in a different light today than when he first spoke of it. Man’s …
Mark Mahoney
Letters to the Editor Sep. 28, 2016 1:00 am3376d ago
On Sept. 19, my dad had to have surgery at St. Luke’s Hospital scheduled as an outpatient. The surgery ended …
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