I should have responded weeks ago to Todd Dorman’s Feb. 23 column “Taking pride in the ‘City of 5 Smells.’?” …
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I should have responded weeks ago to Todd Dorman’s Feb. 23 column “Taking pride in the ‘City of 5 Smells.’?” …
Tuesday is an election day for the voters in the Linn-Mar Community School District. The school board is asking us …
I am shocked and dismayed to learn there are naive Iowa lawmakers who are willing to ignore the inherent dangers …
The new talking-point darling of global-warming scoffers is, as Gary Ellis puts it in “Global warming debunked” (Mardh 8), that …
I am concerned about the recent portrayal of sensationalized vomiting as art. Lady Gaga, who has built much of a …
I read with interest the guest column written by Rev. Tom Capo (“City has many religious groups,” March 17). I …
Sometimes it is best to stay out of other people’s business. Crimea is one example. As I understand it, in …
Kudos to all the groups that participated in “MoShow” at Washington High School. My wife and I watched numerous middle …
It should bother citizens that some around us would like to have The Gazette get rid of the “Mallard Fillmore” …
Regardless of the banal political rhetoric Republicans and Democrats put forth, two things are always true about a minimum wage …
Your “The upside of TIFs” (March 15) needed what Paul Harvey used to call “the rest of the story.” No …
I was delighted to read the news that David Skorton, my former boss and president of Cornell University, will head …
It was great that the Olympics came off safely. The athletes work so hard that the medals should increase to …
As the father of a fourth-grader, the brother of a mentally challenged 51-year-old living in a group home, the husband …
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