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Letters to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: The cost of vouchers

Public schools are just beginning to feel the effects of the voucher system. With fewer students and less money, they must make hard decisions. They have to let personnel go and perhaps even close schools. Nobody should argue against school choice, which is provided by vouchers. It gives ...

Letter to the Editor: Attend the Iowa Caucuses

Do you have an idea on how to improve your school, neighborhood, community, county, state, nation or beyond? Then attend the Iowa Caucuses on Monday, February 2, 2026, at 7 p.m. Write a plank and submit it for a vote to then be submitted to the county platform committee if adopted. This is the ...

Trump and Grassley are senile

Donald Trump on television instead of saying all the great things he has done Trump was bashing Biden. That is what you get when you elect old senile people like Trump and Grassley. When will republicans blame Biden for paying a porn star to keep her mouth shut? Whoops, that was Trump. The ...

Iowa can’t survive its current government

Iowa cannot survive another government that we have been living with. Grassley still getting a paycheck for governing must be an easy job. Healthcare — let’s demand what they have! Those responsible for meeting once a month with the resident council at IVH did not meet once and denied ...

Call to Action for the Tama and Toledo Police Departments

My name is Kylee Cibula and I grew up in Tama. I recently earned my Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Iowa with specialization as a Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. I have seen a huge demand for psychiatry services, so I am actively pursuing dual certification ...

Letter to the Editor: The facts about abortion

I tell John Sheda the facts about abortion. Abortion became legal in the year 1973 when republican Nixon was president by a republican control supreme court back then. Most of those judges on that court were appointed by republican Nixon and Eisenhower. Is Sheda going to tell us Trump never ...

Letter to the Editor: From the womb to the tomb

We're proud to be Republicans for a myriad of reasons, of which this letter would be far too long to state them all or why we are 100% behind our President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. But suffice it to say, here is our number one reason--THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO LIFE FOR EVERY HUMAN ...

Letter to the Editor: Dems not responsible for Charlie Kirk’s murder

U.S.A. attorney general Pam Bondi blames democrats for Charlie Kirk murder. Charlie got murdered in republican control state of Utah not in democrat control states. Trump was president when Charlie and Mollie Tibbetts got murdered not Biden. Pam Bondi do you use same hair dye as Ashley Hinson ...

Letter to the Editor: Corporate pigs

Editor's note: Mary McBee passed away on Saturday, Aug. 30. Huge corporate-owned farms and corporate animal factories are not “farms.” They are industries created solely to bring in highest profits while avoiding responsibility for all damages caused. For decades these industries have ...