Letter to the Editor:We have heard a great deal about "saving Social Security." There are only a couple of things wrong with this statement. First, Social Security is solvent, and its solvency will easily last enough years to allow a solution to be found. Next are the proposed solutions. There ...
Letter to the Editor:Waterway issues and tiling issues can leave a co-beneficiary of trust farmland feeling soaked.Who is to pay for damage done over 30 years to tiles; as waterway issues and soil erosion problems become more apparent?What about the numerous soil conservation and land erosion ...
Dear Editor:What an exquisite tribute!Dennis Lamb, thanks for sharing your Father's memory, for letting today's Tama News-Herald readers know he died at the age of 39 years, beneath a corn picker, sixty-two years ago. A tragedy you long remember, a sadness you and your family handle each day.To ...
Letter to the Editor:Tony Sheda how do you feel about family values?Folks remember it was Nixon and a republican supreme court in the year 1973 that made abortions legal. Tony do you feel a person needs a gun that shoots a hundred rounds?If a person needs a gun that shoots a hundred rounds to ...
Letter to the Editor:DEMOCRATS DON'T CARE ABOUT THE POOROur economy can be effectively compared to four men in a room that want to play cards, but they don't have any cards. That problem is solved by a fifth man in a room next door that has a deck of cards. He lends them out with interest, as ...
Letter to the Editor:Dear Ms. Ernst,You recently said that a federal minimum wage was "ridiculous." A policy that protects tens of millions of American workers and whose erosion due to Congressional passivity has left 200,000+ Iowans making less today, adjusted for inflation, than low wage ...
Letter to the Editor:Both political parties use fear of the opponent to garner votes. A recent example is one that could be very distressing to people relying on Medicare. Mrs. Ernst has said that Representative Braley took more than 700 billion dollars out of Medicare. She cites a report by ...
Dear Editor,A Joni Ernst ad with a man with a beard says don't believe the false attacks against Joni. Braley ads show what Joni is actually saying. So that guy with the beard is saying we shouldn't believe what comes out of Joni Ernst mouth.Yep, I'm going to vote for her.Mr. D. A. BendaToledo
Letter to the Editor:Food for thoughtAs the co-beneficiary of 80 acres in Tama County, I thought it would be important to discuss what the going rate per acre actually is for trust properties in the area.You would think that trustees actually have a fiduciary responsibility to obtain the ...
Letter to the Editor:We all have been watching with boredom and disgust the political ads on TV. One in particular makes my stomach turn. The ad is in support of Planned Parenthood, opposing Joni Ernst. Sweet ladies sitting around the kitchen table converse about how awful it is that Joni Ernst ...