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If there is one thing most people agree with in America, it is that we owe our lives and freedom …
I chuckle each and every time The Gazette prints a letter from someone who was issued a (traffic camera) ticket …
If you grew up as a kid who came from a great home with caring parents and siblings in a …
The May 30 article “Baby treated at UI Hospitals dies after return to Haiti” brings attention to the tragedy caused …
Throughout the nation, tuition costs for college students have been increasing dramatically. Inflation and the current state of the country’s …
Regarding columnist Scott Burns’ May 30 article (“Funding Amtrak – the 40-year train wreck”): Burns should have his license revoked …
The state government and Iowa Legislature spent a lot of time last session on education reform. The main focus was …
The guest column by Lee Belfield (“Hotel/convention center has great potential,” May 26) promotes the downtown agenda, which The Gazette …
Regarding the May 27 guest column by Catherine Glasson (“Romney is too extreme for women in Iowa”): Iowa women are …
Living in rural Linn County and early into our elderly years, my wife and I decided to sell off 30 …
Medicare fraud was committed by a subsidiary of Bain Capital, namely Damon Corporation, a medical laboratory company, which was fraudulently billing …
Regarding your May 12 article titled “Mass incarceration: U.S. No. 1.” Today, merely 211,000 people are “endlessly” languishing in federal …
I would like to thank the Cedar Rapids Downtown District (now part of the Metro Economic Alliance) for its hard …
Summer has arrived and I wish to remind adults that riding lawn mowers were never invented to carry children. Every …
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