Letter to the Editor:I would like to take this opportunity to thank your Toledo Fire Department for once again taking charge of getting our Christmas decorations put up, and getting them down. Also a thank you to Scharnweber Water Conditioning for the use of their equipment for the project.Just ...
Letter to the Editor:The residents of the Iowa Veterans Home need you! Volunteering at IVH will make you feel great and make a difference in the life of a veteran and their families! We are looking for help getting our residents to and from recreational activities, arts & crafts, and ...
Letter to the Editor:I have heard and read about Democrats blaming Governor Branstad for the problems at the State Juvenile Home in Toledo. Editor John Speer of the Tama News Herald wrote an excellent article explaining that the organization "Disability Rights of Iowa" started the ...
Dear Editor:I like to tell republicans president Clinton took a huge Reagan-Bush deficit and turned it into a surplus. So what did the republicans do?They tried to throw president Clinton out of office because they didn't like his sex life. Then the same Iowa republicans wanted Jim Nussle for ...
Letter to the Editor:My name is Chelsea and I am 17 years old. I have heard about all the recent controversy regarding the Iowa Juvenile Home, and the news It will be closing down. I was a youth at the Juvenile Home for 3 years. From 2009 to 2011, and then returned for an additional 7 ...
Letter to the Editor:There has been a lot of negativity going around regarding the Affordable Care Act..aka ObamaCare. I would like to present another slant on the subject by relating my personal story.In 2001, while living in Arizona, I was widowed. I made the decision to return to Iowa to ...
Editor's Note: A copy of a letter Toledo resident and Iowa Juvenile Home employee Allison Graham write to Iowa Governor Terry Branstad was provided to The Chronicle by Graham for the Letters to the Editor section.Dear Governor Branstad,I have heard the best way to get through to politicians is ...
Dear Mr Editor,As a short follow-up to some of the data I submitted earlier, I wanted to break it down a little bit more. I am using the same data from the same sources I previously cited. I just divided the schools expenditures by their enrollment numbers. As you can see, we went from spending ...
To the Editor:It is such a pleasure to write this letter because it is a thank you as well as an acknowledgment that there are citizens in Tama who have wonderful ideas and a strong sense of community.Joni Simpson and Julie Chyma and all the friends and relatives who helped them turn the ...
Letter to the Editor:was angered a bit this morning as I popped open the online News Herald and the most recent article was the recap of the school board's meeting where they have decided to slap us in the face by having another vote on the PPEL.The fact of the matter is that the PPEL lost. It ...