After last year’s steep fall in oil prices, President Barack Obama has proposed a new $10-a-barrel tax on oil for …
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Jim Felker Letters to the Editor Feb. 24, 2016 12:00 am3653d ago
After last year’s steep fall in oil prices, President Barack Obama has proposed a new $10-a-barrel tax on oil for …
Tom Ridgeway Letters to the Editor Feb. 24, 2016 12:00 am3653d ago
Thank you to The Gazette and correspondent Mark Dukes for the team picture and article remembering Miller’s ‘Six Pack” (‘Memorable …
Charles Cizio
Letters to the Editor Feb. 23, 2016 9:17 am3654d ago
Sen. Chuck Grassley is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This group has been unusually slow to send along judicial …
Kurt Maas
Letters to the Editor Feb. 23, 2016 9:17 am3654d ago
I understand the frustration of the electorate with the ‘establishment politicians.” Their engaging in hypocrisy, political posturing and demagoguery while …
Lee R. Overton
Letters to the Editor Feb. 23, 2016 9:16 am3654d ago
Upon reading the story in the Feb. 12 Gazette ‘I-380 interchange at risk as road money shifts,” I was concerned …
Tom Martin
Letters to the Editor Feb. 22, 2016 9:11 am3655d ago
Gov. Terry Branstad says three outside management companies can provide better and more diversified care for 560,000 Medicaid patients while …
Lowell Weaver
Letters to the Editor Feb. 22, 2016 9:10 am3655d ago
I think the caucuses opposed to a primary vote is not a fair vote. People working nights and older people …
Hal Dendurent
Letters to the Editor Feb. 22, 2016 9:09 am3655d ago
Justice Scalia had a superb intellect and was an outstanding scholar and jurist; he was one of the most influential …
Ken Krizan
Letters to the Editor Feb. 21, 2016 12:00 am3656d ago
To condone and vote an explosive pipe across the bread basket of this world that could eventually leak irretrievable lethal …
Leland Hutchison
Letters to the Editor Feb. 21, 2016 12:00 am3656d ago
I am a registered Democrat. However, I never vote straight party. The reason I do this is to not give …
Mitchell A. Levin
Letters to the Editor Feb. 21, 2016 12:00 am3656d ago
Iowa’s own Herbert Hoover has provided us with a template for how to deal with Supreme Court vacancies in an …
Gregory Dunn
Letters to the Editor Feb. 21, 2016 12:00 am3656d ago
I commend the Cedar Rapids school district and the Iowa City school district for terminating the contract of a consultant …
Muriel Steadman
Letters to the Editor Feb. 20, 2016 12:00 am3657d ago
The president has the constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court Justice. The Senate has the right to advise and …
Bobbie Paxton
Letters to the Editor Feb. 20, 2016 12:00 am3657d ago
This year’s caucus in Iowa was my first and it could well be my last. The caucus site was at …
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