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Doug Reimer Letters to the Editor Aug. 17, 2015 1:00 am3845d ago
To the editor: Thank you, Congressman Rod Blum, for approving trade promotion legislation that allows our country to efficiently negotiate …
Robin Stone Letters to the Editor Aug. 16, 2015 1:00 am3846d ago
To the editor: I hope the gentleman who wrote about tearing up his milkweed garden after a caterpillar infestation was …
Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
Letters to the Editor Aug. 16, 2015 1:00 am3846d ago
To the editor: When speaking with people about the nuclear deal with Iran, I’ve heard, ‘But we can’t trust Iran.” …
Jim Morrow
Letters to the Editor Aug. 15, 2015 1:00 am3847d ago
To the editor: A letter by Mary Chalupsky hit the nail on the head (‘C.R. in need of senior community …
Stan Thornberry
Letters to the Editor Aug. 15, 2015 1:00 am3847d ago
To the editor: Marian Arens ‘hopes” that the several measures she mentioned will help prevent ‘climate change” from being so …
David H. Burke
Letters to the Editor Aug. 15, 2015 1:00 am3847d ago
To the editor: Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids, (first called Rose Hill Cemetery) has an address of 1705 Mount Vernon …
Jim Sorensen
Letters to the Editor Aug. 14, 2015 8:23 am3847d ago
To the editor: President Barack Obama is planning to cut more than 40,000 troops over the next two years, along …
Sara McDermott
Letters to the Editor Aug. 14, 2015 8:23 am3847d ago
To the editor: What’s wrong with this picture? ‘Hillary Clinton can’t be trusted to tell the truth” (spewed out on …
John Rassler
Letters to the Editor Aug. 14, 2015 8:23 am3847d ago
To the editor: The article from the Washington Post in the Aug. 5 Gazette citing a study showing that the …
Benjamin Beem
Letters to the Editor Aug. 13, 2015 1:00 am3849d ago
To the editor: Iowa’s water quality is an important issue that should be properly addressed for the safety of our …
Jerry Jurgensmeier
Letters to the Editor Aug. 13, 2015 1:00 am3849d ago
To the editor: I recently read The Gazette’s July 31 article ‘Marion parks stub out nicotine.” It is a perfect …
Jeff Klinzman
Letters to the Editor Aug. 13, 2015 1:00 am3849d ago
To the editor: If David Harsanyi and Walter Williams are fair representatives, the conservative intelligentsia is in a parlous state. …
Bob Schlegel
Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2015 1:00 am3850d ago
To the editor: I don’t know about you folks, but I am tired of the City of Marion’s continued bragging …
Dan Hampton
Letters to the Editor Aug. 12, 2015 1:00 am3850d ago
To the editor: I was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, having attended Arthur, Franklin and Washington schools. A few …
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