Letters to the Editor

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 …

As I look at the campaign ads and statements I can’t help wondering what the political writers actually think of …

Attempts to empower student learning, using results of standardized testing, will prove futile to providing individualized learning for all students. …

How embarrassing and disappointing it is to watch media coverage about the University of Iowa and President Sally Mason. Dr. …