Dear Kathy Potts, I have been a Republican since 1979 when I first registered to vote. I believe in limited …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Mar. 19, 2012 12:18 am5047d ago
Dear Kathy Potts, I have been a Republican since 1979 when I first registered to vote. I believe in limited …
The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Mar. 19, 2012 12:17 am5047d ago
I received an email about touring the Cedar Rapids area that described the city’s story of flood and destruction and …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 19, 2012 12:16 am5047d ago
At the Cedar Rapids school board meeting that decided the fate of Polk Elementary School, I felt that I was …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 19, 2012 12:04 am5047d ago
The University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center has examined the farm bill proposals of the Farm Bureau, the National …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:46 am5048d ago
Why is it that men think they have the right to limit the choices women have when it comes to …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:43 am5048d ago
President Obama and his administration are doing a great job of changing this country. They are taking over every aspect …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:42 am5048d ago
I have been watching too many Republican debates and left wondering if fact is fiction and vice versa. With Republican-presidential …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:41 am5048d ago
Party affiliations become meaningless when dealing with an overgrown and tyrannical government. The centralized power that this president is exerting …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:39 am5048d ago
Our great Founding Fathers, through Godly guidance, set this country to be great and to have the freedoms and justices …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:38 am5048d ago
Taxes are beneficial when they are used to provide services for the citizens when the citizens cannot provide for themselves, …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:35 am5048d ago
Cedar Rapids is becoming the city of bad decisions. We have the new convention center/hotel that we don’t need as …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:34 am5048d ago
The Senate recently voted down 65 to 33 an amendment for the Keystone XL Pipeline in which all crude shipped …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:33 am5048d ago
Iowa businesses need business. As a legislator, I have heard those words many times from the business owners I meet. …
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Letters to the Editor Mar. 18, 2012 12:32 am5048d ago
Iowans, and anyone who consumes Iowa’s agricultural products, are being done a great disservice by the passage of the so-called …
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