In response to several recent denigrations of voter ID requirements, including a July 27 letter by Virginia Meyer (“Official focusing …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Aug. 9, 2012 12:58 pm4797d ago
In response to several recent denigrations of voter ID requirements, including a July 27 letter by Virginia Meyer (“Official focusing …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Aug. 9, 2012 12:58 pm4797d ago
On July 25, Ben Lange wrote an op-ed trashing Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, with false statements about his records and …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 8, 2012 1:36 pm4798d ago
There have been several commentaries and letters recently decrying voter ID legislation as “disenfranchising” large populations of minorities and other …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 8, 2012 1:34 pm4798d ago
Let me second the comments made in Dianne Reininga’s July 29 letter, “Roadside trash makes a bad impression of C.R.” …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 8, 2012 1:33 pm4798d ago
For days, the Ferentz Dynasty was splashed all over the sports section of The Gazette. But wait. academics come first, …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 8, 2012 1:32 pm4798d ago
This concern about helping the middle class is misplaced. Just grow the economy and let pieces to the puzzle fall …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 8, 2012 1:27 pm4798d ago
The public is not getting much information about the threat of Arctic methane. Huge amounts of methane is frozen in …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 8, 2012 1:25 pm4798d ago
The election will soon be history, but the ideology and different economic structures will remain. Will the middle class survive? …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 8, 2012 1:25 pm4798d ago
Granted, President Barack Obama inherited a lot of problems, but here is a man who never so much as ran …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 7, 2012 1:39 pm4799d ago
I was not surprised when I read that receipts for the Counting Crows concert did not meet expectations of the …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 7, 2012 1:38 pm4799d ago
Thank you the front page ad for the Tea Party attack on a Supreme Court judge (“Iowa GOP leader targets …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 7, 2012 1:38 pm4799d ago
It’s time for a close-up peek at Cedar Rapids animal shelter’s summer collection of cats and dogs seeking a permanent …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 7, 2012 1:37 pm4799d ago
How wonderful it is to have people like Barbara Newhall (July 30 letter, “Count the reasons to rejoice in your …
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Letters to the Editor Aug. 6, 2012 1:57 pm4800d ago
As long as we continue to sell weapons of war to private citizens, mentally stable or not, massacres like Aurora, …
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