This is in response to Althea Cole’s opinion piece in the Sunday Gazette (July 13, “Deportation of West Liberty man …
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This is in response to Althea Cole’s opinion piece in the Sunday Gazette (July 13, “Deportation of West Liberty man …
Because we raised our children with PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) television they are kind, civil, courteous, educated and successful citizens. Viewing …
I’ll miss The Joy of Painting, PBS News Hour, Monty Python, Dr. Who, Masterpiece Theater, Nature, Nova, Independent Lens, Downton …
I came out of the NE Target store on July 11 to go to my car. A young man, in …
As a life long member of this community, I am saddened by the transition from clean streets, manicured lawns and …
As our libertine president attempts to deny his sordid past with Jeffrey Epstein, the Iowa congressional delegation and the Christian …
Pints & Politics
A periodic, lighthearted look at Iowa political news from The Gazette's opinion desk.
The deportation of Pascual Pedro is illegal and wrong. No amount of concern trolling from Althea Cole will ever convince …
After I knock on a Meals on Wheels client’s door, I ask, “How are you doing?” Yesterday one client’s answer …
What do the Republican and Democratic Parties have in common? They spend money like they have it. The goals of …
What a sad outcome, to read that the University of Iowa will abandon its longtime lease for the Macbride Nature …
In the Old Testament of the Bible pharaoh and the Egyptians clung to enslavement of the Israelites despite plagues of …
I don’t know letter writer Willard Salemink of West Liberty, but I hear he is well known as owner and …
As the father of an 8-year-old daughter, I’m following the Texas Hill Country floods with a sick feeling in my …
During the bank bailouts 2008 the phrase “privatize the profits, socialize the losses” came to describe crony capitalism. It seems an …
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