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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Dec. 23, 2013 2:53 pm4391d ago
I am a student at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and from August through December of this …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Dec. 23, 2013 2:52 pm4391d ago
On Monday, one of the coldest days I have experienced since moving back to Iowa, I came downtown and pulled …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 22, 2013 3:21 pm4392d ago
My wife and I have been Roughrider season ticket holders for 14 years and even housed players for a few …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 22, 2013 3:20 pm4392d ago
The scoffers increase around Christmas more because of an irritation with joyous individuals, who bid the Holy Spirit entrance within …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 22, 2013 3:18 pm4392d ago
Regarding Kathleen J. Hall’s Dec. 16 guest column “The politics of mean”: In short, Hall has expressed what so many …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 21, 2013 3:17 pm4393d ago
I recently shared my admiration of an organization in Eastern Iowa called Sportability, which helps disabled athletes participate in sports. …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 21, 2013 3:13 pm4393d ago
Nearly every country in the world publicly acknowledges that Earth’s carbon dioxide level must be kept below 450 parts per …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 21, 2013 3:11 pm4393d ago
President Barack Obama and his band of loyalists now are engaged in a frantic effort to polish Obamacare: madly touring …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 21, 2013 3:10 pm4393d ago
The “flattening” or declining test scores of America’s high school students has been occurring for years and educators continue to …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 20, 2013 3:10 pm4394d ago
I am a seventh-grader at North Central Junior High and I’m learning about world hunger. Thousands of people die every …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 19, 2013 3:55 pm4395d ago
Finally! Presidential spokesman Jay Carney finally admitted the administration will try to pin the disastrous rollout of Obamacare on Republican …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 19, 2013 3:54 pm4395d ago
My experience with the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo goes back to 1973. As a human services professional, I valued …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 19, 2013 3:53 pm4395d ago
The Rock Island Clean Line is an investment in our future. I read the anti-Clean Line group’s talk about stopping …
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Letters to the Editor Dec. 19, 2013 3:52 pm4395d ago
A Dec. 12 presentation in Iowa City by the Allamakee County Protectors should raise the alarm about the threat to …
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