About the red light/speeding cameras: When driving down Interstate 380, almost everyone slows down where the cameras are, but as …
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The Gazette Opinion Staff Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2012 11:06 pm5081d ago
About the red light/speeding cameras: When driving down Interstate 380, almost everyone slows down where the cameras are, but as …
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Regarding “Birth control provides many health benefits,” Jan. 27 letter. So birth control reduces the risk of cervical cancer, maternal …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 13, 2012 11:04 pm5081d ago
Even though a Catholic, I find the recent requirement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for most …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 12, 2012 11:59 pm5082d ago
On Jan. 27, Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist held a Holocaust Remembrance Service for the Romani people (gypsies). Much of what …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 12, 2012 11:02 pm5082d ago
Dear Sen. Liz Mathis: The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has recommended and publicly supported the elimination of the summertime …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 12, 2012 11:01 pm5082d ago
The proposed closure of four elementary schools would affect far more than the students, teachers and families directly involved. Locking …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 12, 2012 11:00 pm5082d ago
Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. We paid for this all the years we worked. It started in 1935 …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 11, 2012 11:20 pm5083d ago
President Obama swore an oath to obey the U.S. Constitution to faithfully execute the laws of the land. He is …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 11, 2012 11:19 pm5083d ago
For people traveling I-380 you know that if you set your cruise control at 8 miles an hour above the …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 11, 2012 11:18 pm5083d ago
I like the traffic cameras very much since I feel safer driving, especially on I-380. They have really slowed down …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 11, 2012 11:17 pm5083d ago
Each one of the seemingly endless line of Republican debates makes it increasingly clear that Newt Gingrich is little more …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 11, 2012 11:17 pm5083d ago
It seems Gov. Branstad would not mind interfering with local government again. He interfered with the renovation of the U. …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 11, 2012 11:16 pm5083d ago
We have endured a poor economy without jobs, destruction of our savings, taxation and government regulation not to support us …
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Letters to the Editor Feb. 11, 2012 11:15 pm5083d ago
The idea of education reform is great, but not when taken to the extent that has been recently proposed. All …
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