Iowa has one of the highest ranking universities in the nation, especially as a medical and a medical teaching hospital. …
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Merle Ries Letters to the Editor Mar. 2, 2016 12:05 pm3645d ago
Iowa has one of the highest ranking universities in the nation, especially as a medical and a medical teaching hospital. …
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Sen. Chuck Grassley is a conservative Republican and I am not, so we do not agree on many issues. However, …
Robert Diedrichs
Letters to the Editor Mar. 2, 2016 12:04 pm3645d ago
A bill in the Iowa Legislature, SF 2281, will limit the free expression of political thought, action and free speech …
Robert J. Boes
Letters to the Editor Mar. 2, 2016 12:04 pm3645d ago
Students of history have seen our current political dilemma play out in the past. A charismatic strongman focuses voter frustration …
Larry Prachar
Letters to the Editor Feb. 28, 2016 12:00 am3649d ago
How many of you get the feeling that we are getting stonewalled by our politicians? It seems like they are …
Rex Clemmensen
Letters to the Editor Feb. 28, 2016 12:00 am3649d ago
Justice Antonin Scalia was an originalist. He believed the Constitution means what the writers originally meant it to mean. There …
Chandra Jordan
Letters to the Editor Feb. 27, 2016 12:00 am3650d ago
When Antonin Scalia passed away, before his body was cold, the fight over his successor had begun. All those Republicans …
Philip Andrew
Letters to the Editor Feb. 27, 2016 12:00 am3650d ago
Could Iowa farmer Sen. Chuck Grassley be a credible chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee? This injudicious question was posed …
Kris Sterner
Letters to the Editor Feb. 27, 2016 12:00 am3650d ago
We have a gem in our midst and we need to support it. I attended the play ‘Harvey” at the …
Linda Norris
Letters to the Editor Feb. 26, 2016 12:00 am3651d ago
Walk to lunch or an appointment on Third Avenue SE at First and Second streets and one will see placement …
Donna Walton
Letters to the Editor Feb. 26, 2016 12:00 am3651d ago
I’d like to take a moment to thank Rep. Rod Blum for saying ‘no” to proposals to cut Medicare Advantage …
Thomas Nickols
Letters to the Editor Feb. 25, 2016 12:00 am3652d ago
On Saturday we were in Lindale Mall. My wife and I had my mother-in-law with us. She is 86. We …
Beverly A. Hannon
Letters to the Editor Feb. 25, 2016 12:00 am3652d ago
Although I do not live in Cedar Rapids proper, I have been aware of Monica Vernon’s work on the Cedar …
Wayne Yanda
Letters to the Editor Feb. 25, 2016 12:00 am3652d ago
Iowa Democrats, go to a mirror, and ask yourself if you voted in 2014. If you did not, then you …
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