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Letters to the Editor

Governor’s AEA proposals are wrong for Iowa

Fifty years ago, AEAs were created with the help of Senator Chuck Grassley to create equal opportunities for all students, so that regardless of where you lived, all children and educators had equal access and support to ensure Iowa students could achieve to the fullest. Through the AEA, I was ...

Letter to the Editor: Will Bird primary Reynolds?

Dear editor, After the caucus, Trump said Brenna Bird would be a great governor. Everyone knows Trump is teed off at Kim Reynolds. Will Trump urge Brenna Bird to run against Kim Reynolds in the Republican primary for governor? Dennis Benda Toledo

Letter to the Editor: Sacrificial waters

Eminent Domain is the right of governments or their agency to take private property for the public good with just compensation. It‘s been used to take homes for building roads, city lots for development, tribal lands for highways & railroads, farmlands for pipelines … even with work ...

Letter to the Editor: Connecting the dots

Since no local, state, national or international governing body has the backbone to stand up to the influence of Big Oil money, at least we need to call it out for what it is: filthy dirty money. Individuals or institutions who profit from such investments are either selfishly unwilling or ...

Letter to the Editor: Brenna Bird’s big blunder

Brenna Bird showed up at the Trump Rally in Coralville a few days ago and this is what she found. A candidate that though indicted four times and with 91 charges, saying he loves certain football players, e.g. Matt Whitaker, who served a whopping four months as Trump’s federal AG’s ...

Letter to the Editor: Ignorance

The other day I watched a program about the Electoral College, established originally to give Congress 'correctional' powers over the 'ignorant vote of the common/popular folk.’ Remember... Hillary Clinton won the popular vote and Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote and became our ...

Letter to the Editor: Why I would make a good mayor of Tama

Every now and then, a window of opportunity opens up that won't open for another 1,000 years. With the dismal Democratic Leadership of Senator Boulton, we're passing legalization of marijuana. The Meskwaki are poised via their vape industry to take full advantage of poisoning our kids. The ...

Letter to the Editor: Who will endorse Trump?

Every Iowa member of the U.S. House voted to keep McCarthy as speaker. It was Trump people who brought it to the floor to oust McCarthy. Will Governor Reynolds and Iowa Republicans endorse Trump in the Republican primaries for president? Me being a Democrat, I hope so. Fact: Trump ran twice ...

Letter to the Editor: Police must be accountable

We need law enforcement all the time. But every department should be purged of the "Chauvin" (the man who murdered Floyd) type of cop. There are people in every occupation that shouldn't be in their job. They're in law enforcement, too many in trucking, I even found two bear cats in ...