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Letters to the Editor

Patriotic theme for Toledo stoplight painting

Letter to the Editor: I can hardly wait until July 9th for the Stoplight festival. I hope it is a success for Toledo. I also like the new white base of the stoplight,it looks nice and bright. Maybe they could have someone put red stripes and/or blue stars on the base also. P.M. Henle Toledo

Parents can provide own school dress code

Letter to the Editor: ATTENTION: Parents of SR./JR. high students, I have been listening to the news this spring of schools across the nation about dress codes in different school settings. After working in the schools for some 9 years now and viewing some (much to be desired) clothing in the ...

Genesis credits Phesant Ridge staff

Editor’s Note: Genesis Development stepped in one year ago and took over maangment of the former Tama County Care Facility (County Home)after problems surfaced and it faced possible closing. The care center is now known as Pheasant Ridge. An open house is planned this Saturday, June 26. ...

South Tama school location should not be a factor

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article in the June 15, 2010 issue of the Toledo Chronicle on the "STC Buildings Study: Toledo Middle School has "greatest need." While I do not dispute that the middle school is in need of expansion and upgrading, I take issue with the idea that ...

D.A.: Branstad for Governor of Missouri

Dear Editor: Terry Brandstad said preschool education is to expensive and would veto it if governor. When Brandstad was governor he took taxpayers money he got in salary to send his high school son to school in Missouri. Maybe Brandstad should run for governor of Missouri. Mr. D. A. ...

Anderson appreciates support

Letter to the Editor: I would like to recognize all of my supporters for their help and support during my campaign for the Republican Nomination for Tama County Treasurer. Congratulations to Michelle Yuska for her victory in the primary. I am proud of the campaign that we ran and the people ...

D.A. concerned with Branstad’s son’s school

Letter to the Editor: Tama-Toledo News need to show pictures of the school in Missouri, governor Brandstad sent his high school son when governor. Brandstad was getting paid by Iowa taxpayers so you could say Iowa taxpayers were paying for Brandstad son Missouri education. ...

Iowa’s abysmal Medicare reimbursement

Letter to the Editor: One of the biggest issues facing Iowa’s health care system is abysmal Medicare reimbursement. At the same time, Congressmen Braley, Boswell, Loebsack recently supported an amendment to H.R. 4213 which included a provision increasing Medicare payments for rural doctors in ...

Says Vander Plaats is a real conservative

Dear Editor, Conservative? In an interview with the Des Moines Register this May Terry Branstad said, “It’s very important, somewhat because of my age, that the person I choose as my lieutenant governor be someone that shares my conservative fiscal and social philosophy.” In 1990 Branstad ...

New way to pay for federal government spending

Letters to the Editor I want to Introduce to the public a new concept for funding the federal government. A new efficient tax system that is completely voluntary. This tax plan has been introduced to the United States Congress as the FairTax Act(H.R. 25/S. 296). Imagine keeping every dime of ...