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Bill Munsell Letters to the Editor Jun. 19, 2014 5:48 pm4113d ago
Our country’s news leadership – especially network and local television – must find a smarter way to report future multiple-death …
Jim Niday Letters to the Editor Jun. 18, 2014 5:40 pm4114d ago
Imagine that part of your retirement plan was to put money into a trust that a relative set up for …
Wallace Chappell
Letters to the Editor Jun. 18, 2014 5:40 pm4114d ago
The decision by the Iowa Board of Regents with regard to state funding of their institutions is a bad one. …
Fran Hatfield
Letters to the Editor Jun. 17, 2014 3:59 pm4115d ago
The June 2 Gazette included a guest column ‘Prospect Meadows scores from all bases” about the 17-field baseball and softball …
Laura Zimmerman
Letters to the Editor Jun. 17, 2014 3:59 pm4115d ago
Among the top five skills needed for students of tomorrow, literacy in another language other than English is projected as …
Cindy Adhikari
Letters to the Editor Jun. 17, 2014 3:59 pm4115d ago
The May 7 story ‘Climate change will affect animals” might well be subtitled ‘The definition of insanity on steroids.” It’s …
Thomas Sass
Letters to the Editor Jun. 16, 2014 5:50 pm4116d ago
Recent conservative attack on President Obama: his statistics were ‘exaggerated” on how many workers would benefit from raising minimum wage. …
Ken Sagar
Letters to the Editor Jun. 16, 2014 5:50 pm4116d ago
A new report by Progress Iowa found that 1 out of 6 of Gov. Terry Branstad’s appointees were campaign donors. …
Dorothy Fifield
Letters to the Editor Jun. 16, 2014 5:50 pm4116d ago
Can you imagine having such great wealth that you can play and do real money political Monopoly? The reality is …
Roger L. White
Letters to the Editor Jun. 15, 2014 1:00 pm4118d ago
This is the 25th anniversary of the Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) program. REAP is the very popular and successful …
Irv Schau
Letters to the Editor Jun. 15, 2014 1:00 pm4118d ago
Lisa Powell: You should stop downtown at the new library and see our theater and meeting room for taxpayers use …
Kim Noles
Letters to the Editor Jun. 15, 2014 1:00 pm4118d ago
Joni Ernst says she’s a mother, member of the National Guard and stands for Iowa values, yet she has a …
Jamie Kelly
Letters to the Editor Jun. 15, 2014 1:00 pm4118d ago
I am distressed over The Gazette’s decision to use the name of a juvenile accused of a crime in a …
Michael Mallie
Letters to the Editor Jun. 14, 2014 1:05 pm4119d ago
There is a lot of talk about tolerance from the left. But what is tolerance? Webster’s says tolerance is ‘being …
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