To the editor: This year Iowa lawmakers are faced with another tough budget problem. But the challenge of balancing the …
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Christopher Squier Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2015 6:16 pm3811d ago
To the editor: This year Iowa lawmakers are faced with another tough budget problem. But the challenge of balancing the …
Edith Raus Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2015 6:16 pm3811d ago
To the editor: I thoroughly enjoyed Todd Dorman’s column, ‘Branstad knows what’s best” published April 9. I believe he forgot …
James Surratt
Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2015 12:35 pm3811d ago
To the editor: In reference to the proposed bypass of U.S. 30 around the development near Mount Vernon and Lisbon, …
Sen. Herman Quirmbach
Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2015 12:34 pm3811d ago
To the editor: I recently asked Principal Gary Hatfield what the Republican school funding proposal would mean for Cedar Rapids …
Joel D. Miller
Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2015 12:46 pm3811d ago
To the editor: As Linn county auditor, I have firsthand knowledge of the decisions made by the Linn County Board …
Jonas Magram
Letters to the Editor Apr. 14, 2015 1:30 pm3813d ago
To the editor: I urge landowners, across whose properties the proposed Bakken Pipeline would run, to resist Dakota Access LLC’s …
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Mary Kemen
Letters to the Editor Apr. 14, 2015 1:29 pm3813d ago
To the editor: The canary in the coal mine of Iowa education was evident in Tim Terry’s and Peter Fisher’s …
Richard W. Bice
Letters to the Editor Apr. 14, 2015 1:29 pm3813d ago
To the editor: I recently was selected as an ambassador for the Alzheimer’s Association. Since I was the caregiver for …
Pastor Joshua Graber
Letters to the Editor Apr. 13, 2015 1:00 am3814d ago
To the editor: I recently read an article ‘Why do many reasonable people doubt science?” in the National Geographic and …
Richard R. Lamb
Letters to the Editor Apr. 13, 2015 1:00 am3814d ago
To the editor: The proposed Bakken (Dakota Access) Pipeline would cross Iowa diagonally, northwest corner to southeast corner. It would …
Larry D. Sharp
Letters to the Editor Apr. 12, 2015 1:00 am3815d ago
To the editor: Iowa Republican Representatives and Senators (Rod Blum, Joni Ernst, Chuck Grassley, Steve King, David Young) are not …
Gloria J. Dixon
Letters to the Editor Apr. 12, 2015 1:00 am3815d ago
To the editor: Do you know what you are agreeing to when you check the ‘donor” box on your driver’s …
Jane Hines
Letters to the Editor Apr. 12, 2015 1:00 am3815d ago
To the editor: Some heartening news was printed April 3 in ‘Plans pitched for water park in Cedar Rapids.” I …
Rosemary Weydert
Letters to the Editor Apr. 11, 2015 1:00 am3816d ago
To the editor: A zero-tolerance policy is nothing more than a restriction on people thinking for themselves. In 2009, a …
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