Letter to the Editor: Those who read the Oct. 24th Des Moines Register front page story on money in political races, saw that Bruce Rastetter is now Terry Branstad's top fund raiser. In my last letter, I listed Rastetter as one of those recipients of big eastern money. It is a sad period in our ...

Letter to the Editor: IWILL Vote Yes for Natural Resources For a state whose lifeblood is our rich soils, Iowa’s natural resource record seems short-sighted. Iowa currently ranks 49 out of 50 states in public lands, and 47 out of 50 states in natural resource spending. The DNR cannot ...

Letter to the Editor: On Nov. 2 Iowa has the chance to select a new State Treasurer. The candidate I am voting for is Dave Jamison, currently serving as the Story County Treasurer. I’ve had several opportunities to meet Dave during his visits to Tama county and it’s clear that Dave ...

Dear Editor, This fall, when Iowa for Freedom began to urge citizens to vote “no” on the retention of three Iowa Supreme Court justices on this year’s ballot, opponents were quick to plead for the absence of politics in the process. They did so without any hint of irony. But, they ...

Letter to the Editor: You might be a Democrat if.... By chance you are an undecided voter, let me tell you of a few of the incidents that make me a Democrat! Republicans want nuclear power palnts and more landfills, but probably don’t want to live near them! They belittle Rosie O’Donnell as ...

Dear Editor: Terry Branstad wants Iowa to have the best education in the country. So why when he was governor did he send his high school son to school in Missouri? This tells me if Branstad is governor we will get double talk. What he says and what he does are 2 different things. Mr. D. A. ...

Dear Editor: It seems to me that the increase in sales tax revenue may be attributed to the huge economic boon created by RAGBRAI’s ride through Tama County. The impact of the riders, their crews, and those working in support prior to the event and during the event itself are a likely ...

Letter to the Editor: Less than one month will be election day. County voters will be making their choice of candidtate for several positions. The one which concerns me most is the race for County Treasurer. This office is of great importance to all county taxpayers. The County Treasurer is ...

Dear Editor, If speech therapy was good enough for King George VI, it’s good enough for us! With the release of the new movie, The King’s Speech, it’s a great time to highlight International Stuttering Awareness Day, October 22, and let readers know that there are speech-language ...

Letter to the editor: Terry Branstad’s run for Governor and the Farm Bureau’s endorsement of him create the need to review what the two of them have done to our state, particularly rural Iowa. I cannot begin to put all this in to a letter because no paper would print that much. Instead I ...