Letter to the Editor:CONCERNS about the Iowa Veterans HomeWe, the undersigned former employees of the Iowa Veterans Home (IVH), wish to express our deep concern about what is happening there. Since a new Commandant took over in 2010, stress has increased and morale decreased in that venerable ...
To the Editor,Self-government must include the right and means to know what your representatives are doing and why they are doing it. Today, Iowa Republicans and Democrats are working together to make that right a practical reality for average Iowans. Here are the details.When government ...
Letter to the Editor:Erma Bombeck said it best, "Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain loving one another."National Volunteer Week is April 21 to 27 and is a time to recognize and celebrate ...
Letter to the Editor:After 40 years of legalized abortion, (Roe vs. Wade), I think it is good to look at some facts:267,926 babies in Iowa have been killed by abortion since Roe.55 million babies have been killed by abortion in the United States since Roe.Every 26 seconds a child is killed by ...
Letter to the Editor:WOW! Has the Tama County Humane Society NO KILL shelter been busy this year already!!!!So many dogs have come through here and have found their forever homes of love. This makes us very happy.The volunteers were worked to the edge of exhaustion many days.Now we are over- ...
Letter to the Editor:Are the days of family recreation on farms numbered?The recreational use liability protection bills, HF 605 and SF 413 are stopped for this session of the Iowa legislature unless the issue is attached as an amendment to another bill.These bills would have restored landowner ...
Dear Editor:It appears to me that there are 2 very significant marks of our nation's moral decline. They are abortion as a means of birth control, and the practice and acceptance of homosexual behavior as being legitimate. The one is clearly the taking of human life because that life is ...
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 ...