Letter to the Editor:Do you remember playing in the dirt as a child? As a farmer, I love to play in my "dirt"-or soil- and because of the recent National Ag Week, I'd love to share with you how I protect that valuable resource.We start with "feeding" our soils nitrogen and phosphorous, or as I ...
Letter to the Editor:What's wrong with voting? Why want to discourage it? A current bill in the Iowa legislature requires that a voter's signature be checked to see if it is the same as previous signatures. Yet people's handwriting changes due to illness and age, and no provision is being made ...
Letters to the Editor:As a young fifth generation Iowa family farmer, our family has seen many changes over the past two centuries with agriculture and how livestock is raised. Conservation of our natural resources including water and soil is a top priority not only with our crops, but also ...
Letter to the Editor:I support Dean Fisher for his continual commitment to animal agriculture in the rural community and the state of Iowa. We need economic development and we also need our corn fed to livestock .We don't need HF 203 opened up.Allen BurtRural Marshalltown
Letter to the Editor:One of the decisions being made by the Iowa legislature is changing the way justices are selected currently using legislators, the governor, and lawyers. Two complaints about this change is that it puts more politicians into the selection process and that the system has ...
Dear Editor:President Trump and other republicans call Michael Cohen a liar. So why did Trump have him as his personal lawyer for 10 years? Why has Trump been divorced so many times? Why did Trump pick people like Sessions for his cabinet then fire them? This tells me Trump doesn't have good ...
Dear Editor,The Health Resources and Services Administration (www.HRSA.gov) is the primary federal agency responsible for oversight of the organ and blood stem cell transplant systems in the U.S. and for initiatives to increase organ donor registration and donation in this country.And while we ...
Dear Editor,I am writing to thank Tama residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season.Because of the generosity of donors in Tama and across the United States, Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan's Purse, collected more than 8.8 ...
Letter to the Editor:Iowa should regulate marijuana like beer, wine and liquorTen states now regulate marijuana like alcohol.In November, Michigan voters approved legal sales of marijuana to adults. The newly elected Governors of both Minnesota and Illinois want to do the same.Iowa should ...
Dear Editor:Throughout its history, the Iowa State Fair has been a unique institution, serving to educate, inform and entertain people from all walks of life. From the first Fair in Fairfield in 1854, to 1886 when it found a permanent home, to today, the Iowa State Fair has been our state's ...