Dear Editor:This letter concerns raising the citizens of Tama's water bills in order to purchase an electronic meter reading device. In my opinion this is unnecessary. For one thing, Tama's water bill is already higher than several other towns' because, as I understand it, the bill was raised a ...
Dear Editor,Three questions for Tony Sheda. Did you vote for Nixon for president who gave us abortions with a republican supreme court back in the year 1973? I bet you did. Blame republicans for abortions and stop blaming democrats. A few years back when Bush was president and republicans had ...
Letter to the Editor:Response to the ResponsesIt's encouraging to hear the number of people who've said my letter about waste and hypocrisy in school food programs stirred up a fire storm both positive and negative. At least we're talking!Some written responses were predictable examples of why ...
Editor,At this joyous season of Easter, I can only imagine the scene in an abortion operating room. it would be serious. No laughing, no banter, just the business of death. In the time it takes for doctors and nurses to destroy a little innoncent, a life is lost. I would assume the little boy ...
Dear Editor:I like to tell republicans Obama is president because you ran bad candidates against him. That is the same reason that Branstad is governor. If republicans think they loose elections because of illegals. I think we should have IQ test at the polls because you are a idiot to blame ...
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 ...