To the editor: Regarding Jeb Bush’s guest column ‘Executive orders trample Second Amendment,” published Jan. 5: After reading the guest …
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Bobbie Paxton Letters to the Editor Jan. 9, 2016 12:00 am3641d ago
To the editor: Regarding Jeb Bush’s guest column ‘Executive orders trample Second Amendment,” published Jan. 5: After reading the guest …
Michael Shaw Letters to the Editor Jan. 9, 2016 12:00 am3641d ago
Jeb Bush, I read your Jan. 5 guest column ‘Executive orders trample Second Amendment.” In it you focused on ISIS, …
Gail Orcutt
Letters to the Editor Jan. 8, 2016 12:00 am3642d ago
To the editor: I’m not a realtor, builder or a radon mitigator. I was an Iowa teacher for 33 years. …
Colleen Hartman
Letters to the Editor Jan. 8, 2016 12:00 am3642d ago
To the editor: Cedar Sound Chorus, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, would like to thank Jim Brickman for inviting …
Gerhild Krapf
Letters to the Editor Jan. 7, 2016 12:00 am3643d ago
To the editor: In Iowa, process at all levels has been replaced by politically motivated appointments and decision making. How …
Jeff Ilten
Letters to the Editor Jan. 7, 2016 12:00 am3643d ago
To the editor: My wife and I read the article in The Gazette on Dec. 26 about Marco Rubio blocking …
Chandra Jordan
Letters to the Editor Jan. 6, 2016 8:37 am3643d ago
To the editor: We are Hawkeyes. We are born, bred and cornfed and we bleed black and gold … right? …
Jim Ruppert
Letters to the Editor Jan. 6, 2016 8:37 am3643d ago
To the editor: In 1958 I was 12 years old. My mother decided we should take the train to California …
Jim Walters
Letters to the Editor Jan. 5, 2016 9:19 am3644d ago
To the editor: I’m sympathetic to Paul M. Winistorfer’s concerns (‘For survivors of violence, words can hurt,” Dec. 26), but …
Ed Flaherty
Letters to the Editor Jan. 5, 2016 9:18 am3644d ago
To the editor: It was interesting to read that Jack and Peter DeCoster and their company, Quality Egg LLC, have …
Dennis Bousselot
Letters to the Editor Jan. 4, 2016 12:00 am3646d ago
To the editor: Regarding the Dec. 29 article ‘Iowa voters giving up on ethanol”: Did I miss something? I’m not …
Cindy Lamphier
Letters to the Editor Jan. 4, 2016 12:00 am3646d ago
To the editor: I am writing to have a voice for animals. They cannot speak; however, they do have feelings. …
Christopher H. Marks
Letters to the Editor Jan. 4, 2016 12:00 am3646d ago
To the editor: The primary purpose of political parties is to offer candidates who can win elections. Political parties that …
Leo Salat
Letters to the Editor Jan. 3, 2016 12:00 am3647d ago
To the editor: Since ethanol is primarily derived from corn in the Midwest (47 percent of the crop), the amount …
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