This year, AmeriCorps is celebrating its 20th anniversary. I am serving in the National Health Corps and have witnessed the …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Apr. 2, 2014 2:24 pm4348d ago
This year, AmeriCorps is celebrating its 20th anniversary. I am serving in the National Health Corps and have witnessed the …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Apr. 2, 2014 2:24 pm4348d ago
Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds have put forth an ambitious agenda looking forward and have a historic …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 2, 2014 2:23 pm4348d ago
Ben Carson’s March 13 column, “The profligate path to servitude,” shows he is uninformed about money management. Money is created …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 2, 2014 2:23 pm4348d ago
Some politicians and most environmentalists are concerned about the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Well, they should be because …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 1, 2014 3:41 pm4349d ago
We have an opportunity to once again show the nation our quality of life. A bill has been written to …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 1, 2014 3:41 pm4349d ago
My wife and I were born 90 years ago. We and our children, our extended families, neighbors and their children …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 1, 2014 3:40 pm4349d ago
I have no stake in the “Mallard Fillmore” debate. I do find his commentary mean, petty, often wrong about the …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 31, 2014 2:22 pm4350d ago
Gov. Terry Branstad and I have a lot in common. We’re both 67-year-old white males, native Iowans, raised on family …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 31, 2014 2:21 pm4350d ago
Cedar Rapids is a city that I never cared much for but now with its traffic cameras I have decided …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 31, 2014 2:21 pm4350d ago
The city streets department is going to get pothole-filling machines to replace the current practice of shoveling blacktop into a …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 30, 2014 4:08 pm4351d ago
Another thing U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley apparently doesn’t understand about Iowans is the fact that Sen. Chuck Grassley being a …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 30, 2014 4:07 pm4351d ago
The Cedar Rapids School District is in the process of moving from a trimester school year to a semester-based school …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 30, 2014 4:07 pm4351d ago
I’ve read the letters criticizing the “Snapshots” page and I’m saddened by the mindset expressed in them. There’s so much …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 29, 2014 12:36 pm4352d ago
Please vote for Lisa Green-Douglas for Johnson County Board of Supervisors in June. She is hardworking and an excellent listener. …
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