An organization supporting Bruce Braley has spent $2.6 million on attack ads against Joni Ernst that a nonpartisan fact checking …
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Bill Barrow Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2014 5:15 pm4009d ago
An organization supporting Bruce Braley has spent $2.6 million on attack ads against Joni Ernst that a nonpartisan fact checking …
Kurt Noack Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2014 5:17 pm4009d ago
Under the auspices of the Foster Grandparent Program, I volunteer at Nixon School five days per week and even though …
Joyce Carman
Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2014 5:15 pm4009d ago
I am not a native Iowan, but, having lived in Iowa for almost 50 years, I am very proud to …
Bob Bromley
Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2014 5:14 pm4009d ago
We have been privileged to have been represented in the Iowa Senate for the past 7 years by Rob Hogg. …
Eve Bennett
Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2014 5:16 pm4009d ago
Joni Ernst’s latest TV ad tells us that she will protect our Social Security and Medicare for us and future …
John Sheda
Letters to the Editor Oct. 1, 2014 5:17 pm4009d ago
Certain issues guide one to vote one way or another. People who do not vote sometimes feel their one vote …
Paul Forbes
Letters to the Editor Sep. 30, 2014 1:00 am4010d ago
I have supported Kirk Ferentz since he started as head coach. He had proved himself as an o-line coach under …
Sara Langenberg
Letters to the Editor Sep. 30, 2014 1:00 am4010d ago
Knocking on doors for Amy Nielsen’s mayoral campaign in North Liberty confirms my belief that she will bring the fresh …
James Conger
Letters to the Editor Sep. 30, 2014 1:00 am4010d ago
David Chung writes in his Sept. 22 column ‘Nothing wrong with party-line voting” that he votes party-line Republican ‘precisely because …
Ray Larson
Letters to the Editor Sep. 30, 2014 1:00 am4010d ago
Regarding the Sept. 8 article ‘Hospitals in expansion states performing well”: In a nutshell it says that the hospitals in …
James Larkin
Letters to the Editor Sep. 30, 2014 1:00 am4010d ago
Any day now I would like to hear a fuller explanation of what Joni Ernst’s much-touted ‘Iowa Values” consist of, …
Gary Matson
Letters to the Editor Sep. 29, 2014 1:00 am4011d ago
I find it hard to believe that people are trying to justify their breaking the law by hoping to have …
Dean Ledvina
Letters to the Editor Sep. 29, 2014 1:00 am4011d ago
‘Obama raised my grocery prices by 30 percent.” I made that statement to Dr. Ben Carson as I was getting …
Nancy Young
Letters to the Editor Sep. 29, 2014 8:31 am4011d ago
Recently, unauthorized individuals jumped the fence around the White House and tried to get entrance. If President Barack Obama does …
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