Extending the local option 1-percent sales tax is not visionary or demonstrates any leadership whatsoever on taxes and spending. Keeping …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Sep. 15, 2013 1:40 pm4393d ago
Extending the local option 1-percent sales tax is not visionary or demonstrates any leadership whatsoever on taxes and spending. Keeping …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Sep. 15, 2013 12:38 pm4393d ago
This letter is a plea to Hoover Trail bikers, walkers and runners. The Ely City Council has voted to approve …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 14, 2013 12:04 pm4394d ago
So the new casino is going to be almost twice as big and cost twice as much as originally planned. …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 14, 2013 12:03 pm4394d ago
Marion and I recently visited our daughter and son-in-law in Boise, Idaho. Boise and Cedar Rapids have two features that …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 14, 2013 12:02 pm4394d ago
Once upon a time there was a man who lived by a river. He heard a radio report that the …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 14, 2013 12:02 pm4394d ago
I was very disappointed to see the “Gone with the wind” cartoon (by Larry Garman) on a recent editorial page. …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 14, 2013 12:01 pm4394d ago
The Eastern Iowa Airport is undergoing a major change. In 1964, the Cedar Rapids Fire Department opened a fire station …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 13, 2013 11:48 am4395d ago
I wish to thank Cedar Memorial for sponsoring its third annual hospice program that roughly 350 hospice workers and volunteers, …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 13, 2013 11:47 am4395d ago
I was sad to read the letter from a grieving daughter about the lack of care her mother received at …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 13, 2013 11:46 am4395d ago
For those who have had a car damaged in an accident or perhaps are thinking about having their car restored, …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 12, 2013 12:23 pm4396d ago
The story about the young woman who blew a 0.341 (blood alcohol, according to police reports) astounds me. Apparently people …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 12, 2013 12:23 pm4396d ago
I read with interest the Aug. 27 article “Bringing back barter.” Each year in May, Friends of Hickory Hill Park …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 12, 2013 12:22 pm4396d ago
Bob Grove’s submission on Sept. 1, “Americans lucky to have Truman as a leader,” cites a declassified document outlining a …
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Letters to the Editor Sep. 12, 2013 12:22 pm4396d ago
In an Aug. 20 letter titled “It’s time to follow the golden rule,” one little word has a big impact. …
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