The City of Marion has given its first reading to allow backyard chickens. What is interesting is that the presenters …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jan. 30, 2014 12:52 pm4255d ago
The City of Marion has given its first reading to allow backyard chickens. What is interesting is that the presenters …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jan. 30, 2014 12:51 pm4255d ago
Shocked, upset and confused are the alumni in regard to the shrinking of Iowa Wesleyan College. Years ago at my …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 29, 2014 3:11 pm4256d ago
How could any law be argued to allow a brain-dead mother to be buried when she holds a living baby …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 29, 2014 3:11 pm4256d ago
In the Jan. 16 Gazette picture page was a galaxy so large that scientists use light years for measurement. This …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 29, 2014 3:10 pm4256d ago
The Gazette’s editorial “Things to do” on Jan. 12 was interesting. It mentioned that a study by the Economic Development …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 28, 2014 2:47 pm4257d ago
After reading the schedule shuffle idea in The Gazette (“Schedule shuffle aimed at solving budget crunch,” Jan. 17), I have …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 28, 2014 2:46 pm4257d ago
January is National Stalking Awareness Month. The definition of stalking: It involves intentional and repeated behaviors that place an individual …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 28, 2014 2:45 pm4257d ago
Kudos to U.S. Senate candidate Mark Jacobs for supporting the Renewable Fuel Standard. By advocating to protect Iowa’s agricultural and …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 28, 2014 2:37 pm4257d ago
A sincere thank you to TV stations KWWL and KCRG-TV9 for understanding the proper usage of informational graphics and crawler …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 27, 2014 3:16 pm4258d ago
In placing blame for the financial fiasco at the 6th Judicial District Department of Corrections on former director Gary Hinzman, …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 27, 2014 3:16 pm4258d ago
Rodeo is a spectacle of abuse, a display of human domination over animals. Electric prods, spurs and bucking straps are …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 27, 2014 3:15 pm4258d ago
To the seniors, the children and the working poor: What a friend we have in Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks. How unfortunate …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 26, 2014 1:46 pm4259d ago
A Jan. 19 Gazette article proclaims “Extreme weather stresses crops worldwide.” What a shock. Like this hasn’t been going on …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 26, 2014 1:44 pm4259d ago
In the newspaper lately, there have been negative articles concerning South Slope Cooperative Communications. I have been a South Slope …
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