How did casinos get to be our best urban industry option in Iowa? They foster addictive behavior and encourage crime. …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jan. 14, 2014 1:55 pm4369d ago
How did casinos get to be our best urban industry option in Iowa? They foster addictive behavior and encourage crime. …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Jan. 13, 2014 1:31 pm4370d ago
Robert Zeck’s Jan. 9 letter “Minimum wage talk only for political gain” railed against the raising of the minimum wage. …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 13, 2014 1:31 pm4370d ago
I’m glad the Girl Scouts finally are more available to disadvantaged girls (“Outreach efforts enact scout pledge,” Jan. 6). I …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 13, 2014 1:30 pm4370d ago
Rock Island Clean Line has completed its dance across Iowa with formal meetings. They gave us their reasons why a …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 12, 2014 2:23 pm4371d ago
In reference to the letter that I am not a constitutional scholar (“Writer no scholar of Constitution,” Jan. 8 by …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 12, 2014 2:22 pm4371d ago
Like a financial balance sheet, the proposed Rock Island Clean Line project has negative attributes along with positive benefits. Those …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 12, 2014 2:20 pm4371d ago
Mayor Ron Corbett was quoted in the Jan. 5 Gazette: “We’re having some success in this community because we’ve put …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 11, 2014 12:51 pm4372d ago
This story of two wolves (related to personality) rather fascinates me. Here, related to culture. Inside each of us there …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 11, 2014 12:51 pm4372d ago
I’m in agreement with Jim Walters as to the lack of caring about our natural resources (“Don’t let Iowa Legislature …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 11, 2014 12:49 pm4372d ago
Thank you, Phil Alexander. Your racially charged diatribe (“U.S. demographics a test disadvantage,” Dec. 22) regarding declining test scores in …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 11, 2014 12:49 pm4372d ago
The United Nations is trying to sneak several dangerous treaties through the U.S. Senate: l The U.N.’s small arms treaty …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 11, 2014 12:48 pm4372d ago
Streets in the residential areas of Cedar Rapids are a terrible mess from all the sand and salt that has …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 11, 2014 12:47 pm4372d ago
The Environmental Protection Agency needs to reassess its stance on ethanol. The EPA is set to change rules that could …
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Letters to the Editor Jan. 11, 2014 12:46 pm4372d ago
Cedar Lake has been called many things: the slough, a dumping ground for industrial waste, the home of chemically altered …
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