Your April 6 editorial attacking Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett shocks me. “Generally committed and competent?” He’s the best county …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Apr. 19, 2012 12:42 pm4909d ago
Your April 6 editorial attacking Johnson County Auditor Tom Slockett shocks me. “Generally committed and competent?” He’s the best county …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Apr. 19, 2012 12:42 pm4909d ago
I see our Sen. Tom Harkin is the latest trying to force Americans to use a dollar coin rather than …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 19, 2012 12:41 pm4909d ago
Many people have complained about the traffic cameras loud and long enough that the Legislature got involved. The reality is …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 18, 2012 1:22 pm4910d ago
After reading Lenore Skenazy’s April 14 article, “Mental illness? It’s normal to be crazy in this world,” I thought to …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 18, 2012 1:20 pm4910d ago
The Penny4NASA campaign’s mission is to increase federal funding of space science programs. NASA is underfunded, and “We the People” …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 18, 2012 1:19 pm4910d ago
I am sure the author meant no harm with her April 14 column on mental illness (“Mental illness? It’s normal …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 18, 2012 1:17 pm4910d ago
I would like to hear a presidential candidate extol the virtues of this wonderful country we live in today. I …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 17, 2012 1:36 pm4911d ago
My friend, Colleen Pasnik, was honored by Gov. Terry Branstad with an appointment to the Iowa Board of Medicine but …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 17, 2012 1:35 pm4911d ago
The April 11 article “Lombardi will keep coaching, teaching jobs at Washington,” caught my attention. There was little information given …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 17, 2012 1:35 pm4911d ago
The recent “pink slime” debate has started me thinking on how we can help our representatives make better decisions when …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 17, 2012 1:32 pm4911d ago
For the second year in a row, President Barack Obama’s budget was demolished in the U.S. House by a March …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2012 1:10 pm4912d ago
A week ago, a fine man from the west side said that because we had a flood in 2008, we …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2012 12:55 pm4912d ago
Mary Sanchez’s April 11 column poses a question: “Have you ever faced a potentially dangerous, life-threatening situation?” I have on …
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Letters to the Editor Apr. 16, 2012 12:53 pm4912d ago
“Pink slime,” or lean, finely textured beef, is a cheap way of producing a product that can be produced another …
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