Letter to the Editor: I think that this is insightful and I would like to share it with you. With each recession we lose more and more of the middle class. As reported by 60 minutes recently, 25% of our school children are at the poverty line or below; and, economists will agree, government ...
Dear Editor: Chuck Grassley was on C-SPAN and said he is a fiscal conservative. The same Chuck Grassley was for spending hundreds of millions for a rain forest in Iowa. This tells me we have to many old and senile politicians in Washington DC. Mr. D. A. Benda Toledo
To the Editor, The long lasting Iowa political season is now at our front door. I’d like to pitch in my own two cents worth. One penny for the Democrats and one penny for the Republicans. It doesn’t seem to matter who is in office they almost always increase the size of this years budget ...
Dear Editor: Everyone should go to local courthouse and get new voter registration card. Terry Branstad signed into law the new redistricting. Tama county in congress is represented by Leonard Boswell now but in the next election we will vote for a different congressman. My card is so old ...
To the Editor, Would you like your residential property taxes raised in order to give a big tax cut to Wal-Mart and other out-of-state corporations? Governor Branstad and Republican legislators threaten to shut down state government unless Democrats agree to do just that. Republicans demand a ...
Letter to the Editor: The picture in the “A Glance at the Past “ column in this weeks Chronicle, and the column “From Out of the Past” in this weeks News-Herald brought back memories that hadn’t crossed my mind for a long long time. I was with my dad (Hod Walton) in the Gamble Store ...
Letter to the Editor, Governor Branstad defends his starvation budget with a simple, sparse message: Iowa spends more than it takes in. During stops across the state this week, the Governor will likely repeat this claim many, many, many times. Here’s the question reporters and Iowans ...
To the Editor, I’m a state senator, a retired factory worker, the former president of the Burlington School Board, and the proud father of two Iowa teachers. I’m very concerned about the budget deadlock at the Iowa Statehouse. If a compromise can’t be reached, our schools and colleges, ...
Letter to the Editor: Tim Pawlenty is campaigning in Iowa for president. When governor of Minnesota, Pawlenty was for the taxpayers of Minnesota paying over $400. million for a ballpark for the Minnesota Twins. Pawlenty felt the billionaire owner of the Twins shouldn’t have use his own money ...
Letter to the Editor: Same old, same old from a cheerleader for abortion. She wrote “The science of fetal pain comes from shady sources.” Anyone saying that an innocent baby who is chopped up, saline burned, yanked out and turned around and having their brain sucked out don’t feel pain ...