Letter to the Editor,When asked about Iowans too poor to afford health insurance, Governor Branstad talks about health care savings accounts, increasing co-pays, and people drinking at open bars at weddings.Governor, making health care more expensive won't help people who can't afford it in the ...

Letter to the Editor:No one questions the fact that students have difficulty learning when they're hungry. The question is, WHO should be feeding them and HOW?The National School Lunch Act became law in 1946. Since that time, we have added breakfast, school-day snacks, after-school snacks, ...

Dear Editor:I hear so called fiscal conservative Chuck Grassley bellyaching about government spending. I invite Chuck Grassley to write a letter to this newspaper explaining his reasoning for wanting to spend taxpayers money for a rain forest in Iowa that would cost hundreds of millions of ...

Letter to the Editor:The latest announcement by the Postmaster General requires a little background. And by the way, neither the Postmaster General, nor anyone else, can unilaterally enforce a switch to 5-day delivery without Congress's approval.Prior to 2006, Congress had unfairly forced the ...

Letter to the Editor:Last week the United States Senate passed the bill Violence Against Women Act. This is a bill that will help stop the violence against women in our Nation.One of the Senate's No votes,- was from Iowa GOP Senator, Chuck Grassley. Women of Iowa what do you purpose to do? Look ...

Dear Editor:Tom Harkin is retiring because their is more to life than just being a senator. Harkin also feels their is a lot of Iowans good enough to replace him. Grassley is 6 years older than Harkin. If Grassley runs again Grassley is telling us their isn't a republican good enough to ...

Dear Editor:I like to tell Tony A. Sheda that president Obama was 11 going on 12 years old when abortion became legal. The person responsible for abortions is Richard Nixon and back then a republican supreme court. Abortions became legal when Nixon was president. I would like to know did your ...

Letter to the Editor:Thank you Jeanie Sieck! For bringing attention to the Tama County Human Society and their Volunteers last Saturay morning. We enjoy the visits from each person that comes in. We get so busy cleaning kennels and other chores. It is nice to have others come in and love up the ...

Letter to the Editor:I can only imagine a letter like this:Dear President Obama,My name is Tony A. I am 7 years old, in 2nd grade and I study hard.I am glad my mom didn't kill me. I hope you will use a Decree to save babies from being kilt.You could make doctors who have a hypocrite oath to ...

Dear Editor:I keep hearing the roads in Iowa are bad and need to be fixed. A lot of people who are against raising the gas tax spend money on cigarettes, booze, and at casinos. They should ask themselves what is more important cigarettes that cause cancer or good roads?Mr. D. A. BendaToledo