To the editor: When a state board voted to scrap the 4-inch topsoil rule some months ago they acted in …
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Rich Patterson Letters to the Editor Dec. 19, 2015 12:00 am3720d ago
To the editor: When a state board voted to scrap the 4-inch topsoil rule some months ago they acted in …
Karen Nichols Letters to the Editor Dec. 19, 2015 12:00 am3720d ago
To the editor: I support President Barack Obama’s proposal to enact common-sense gun regulations in response to the terrorist threat. …
Rod Sullivan
Letters to the Editor Dec. 17, 2015 12:00 am3722d ago
To the editor: Please don’t be fooled. Mayor Ron Corbett’s proposal to tie a flat tax to clean water concerns …
Katie Mulbrook
Letters to the Editor Dec. 17, 2015 12:00 am3722d ago
To the editor: Many people think money makes them happy. But does it? People are too reliant on money for …
Dick Guilgot
Letters to the Editor Dec. 17, 2015 12:00 am3722d ago
To the editor: I know the words demigod and demagogue are often confused, so I looked them up in my …
Savanah Meeks
Letters to the Editor Dec. 16, 2015 12:00 am3723d ago
To the editor: In response to the Nov. 13 letter ‘Time to enforce current gun laws”: I agree with Jim …
Robert E. Karrick
Letters to the Editor Dec. 16, 2015 12:00 am3723d ago
To the editor: I read with great interest the Nov. 13 article ‘HUD proposes smoking ban in public housing.” HUD …
Tom Arp
Letters to the Editor Dec. 16, 2015 12:00 am3723d ago
To the editor: It’s time for those who use to pay for it. Bikers pay for your own trails, library …
Paula Hernandez
Letters to the Editor Dec. 15, 2015 12:00 am3724d ago
To the editor: Just wondering where all the people who gripe about how much money Iowa head football coach Kirk …
Nikki L. Tarbill
Letters to the Editor Dec. 15, 2015 12:00 am3724d ago
To the editor: Regarding the Nov. 11 letter ‘Eastern Iowa Honor Flight honored veterans”: Eastern Iowa Honor Flight did a …
Bev Philpott
Letters to the Editor Dec. 15, 2015 12:00 am3724d ago
To the editor: I am appalled to find that Senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley are among the 20 highest …
Derek Maurer
Letters to the Editor Dec. 14, 2015 12:00 am3725d ago
To the editor: Arguments about climate change, environmental risk and property rights aside, the business case for the Bakken pipeline …
Mike Alt
Letters to the Editor Dec. 14, 2015 12:00 am3725d ago
To the editor: President Barack Obama commenting on the shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood, made these statements on Nov. …
Sandra Eccles
Letters to the Editor Dec. 14, 2015 12:00 am3725d ago
To the editor: As important a job as is the presidency, it reoccurs to me that little if any experience …
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