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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor May. 13, 2013 12:34 pm4518d ago
When I was a young mother, my Aunt Beth would save all of her Styrofoam containers from her Meals on …
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The Iowa rivers, lakes and streams are becoming very polluted. Sixty percent of the water sources are classified as being …
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Letters to the Editor May. 12, 2013 12:43 pm4519d ago
Sen. Chuck Grassley, can you explain to me and to the families of the 26 people who died at Sandy …
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Letters to the Editor May. 12, 2013 12:42 pm4519d ago
If we truly had a liberal media, then some of the myths created by the right would have long ago …
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Letters to the Editor May. 12, 2013 12:34 pm4519d ago
I am a single mother of three young men, Arzal (21), Brandon (19) and Brian Jr. (18). I moved here …
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Letters to the Editor May. 11, 2013 11:19 am4520d ago
The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee was expected to mark up the farm bill last week, with the House marking up …
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Letters to the Editor May. 11, 2013 11:18 am4520d ago
Nobody should be able to take a baby’s life because they made a bad choice. If anything they should find …
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Letters to the Editor May. 11, 2013 11:18 am4520d ago
Regarding the April 26 story, “C.R. eighth-graders get head start on high school”: I am disappointed in the one-sided story. …
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Letters to the Editor May. 11, 2013 11:17 am4520d ago
We set a red line for Syria not to cross on use of chemical/biological weapons or there would be grave …
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Letters to the Editor May. 11, 2013 11:16 am4520d ago
On April 21, The Gazette published a guest column by Jeff Klinzman (“Society fractures along belief lines”). This column brought …
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Letters to the Editor May. 11, 2013 11:15 am4520d ago
You don’t have to be an economist to figure out the minimum-wage question. Seventy percent of the economy is consumption. …
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Letters to the Editor May. 11, 2013 11:14 am4520d ago
I wonder how many cardiac patients were as hurt as I was to tell our trusted heart doctor that we …
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Letters to the Editor May. 9, 2013 12:21 pm4522d ago
America imports cars and about everything we use in our homes. Why can’t we import those doctor-prescribed medical drugs? Open …
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Letters to the Editor May. 9, 2013 12:18 pm4522d ago
Again, I urge fellow believers, God-fearing people who love our country, to voice opposition to gay involvement in the Boy …
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