Dear Editor,I'm talking about the Doggy in the window with bars on it not the song. I'll bet you did not know that Iowa has the 2nd number of puppy mills in the nation! Iowa is home to 200 commercial dog breeding kennels (aka puppy mills)!Thousands of dogs are currently sitting in small, ...
Letter to the Editor:Iowa is not sensitive to long-term care needs of veterans injured with severe PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury or Military Sexual Trauma. An obscure section of the Code of Iowa requires that the Commandant of the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown keep these veterans out or ...
We realize that if we have two jobs and quit one of them we will have lessincome. Currently, our governor and legislature seem somewhat alarmed that the state is experiencing a one hundred million dollar short fall in tax revenues. However, personal tax income is up 4.2%. Sales and use tax is ...
Letter to the Editor:Did you know that the Iowa Veterans Home currently has a memorial on their grounds for each of our major wars except for World War II? The members of the second Emerging Leaders Program at Grinnell Mutual want that to change and are currently raising funds to have a ...
Letter to the Editor:David Stanley of Iowans for Tax Relief is against raising Iowa gas tax to fix Iowa roads. Will David Stanley pay the people to get their vehicle fix because of driving on Iowa bad roads?Mr. D. A. BendaToledo
Letter to the Editor:Coach Keahna and the STC Girls Basketball Team wants to send out a special thank you to the Tama/Toledo Communities for all of their generosity and support at their 2nd Annual Coaches vs. Cancer Night. This year's event was held on Friday, Jan. 30th against Independence. ...
Letter to the Editor:An article in the Des Moines Register on January 28 has this caption "Iowa Cities Tackle Deadly Dams". According to a group that calls itself the Iowa Whitewater Coalition, since 1900 one hundred ninety-two Iowans have drowned at dams. I am sure this group and the Iowa DNR ...
Letter to the Editor:My compliments to the People of the Meskwaki Nation. Regardless of your feelings about gambling, I would encourage you to visit the lobby between the hotel and casino.There you will find museum quality displays of Meskwaki history, beautiful black and white photos and ...
Dear Editor,Recently Tom Fiegen, a possible challenger to me for the Senate Democratic nomination, made a disturbing comment on his Facebook Page.In response to a Des Moines Register article, he said: "Farm Bureau is the environmental equivalent of the Klu (sp) Klux Klan." I have the utmost ...
Letter to the Editor:Coming legislature is talking about fixing Iowa roads. Either by raising the gas tax or having toll roads. In this cold weather who wants to try rolling down a frozen window to pay to use a toll road? In Tama county it wouldn't be bad but if you are in Des Moines at rush ...