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Letters to the Editor

Appreciates Otter Creek Lake Park

Letter to the Editor: I've been wanting to write this comment for years, but just now getting around to it. The Otter Creek Park is one of the prettiest places around Iowa. It is always so well kept up and mowed. Being so close, Frank and I use it as our beautiful site for walking and then ...

Career Development has ‘willing workers’ available

To the Editor: As the holidays are quickly approaching, the Tama Co. Career Development Center would like to remind local businesses that we have willing workers to help with holiday projects that might be planned. We can do preparation of bulk mailings, including collating, folding, stuffing ...

D.A. questions Branstad’s vacations

Dear Editor, If Terry Brandstad loves Iowa so much. Why did he send his son Eric to school in Missouri when he was governor? When he was governor he took vacations in Iowa. Then when he left office as governor it was reported on the news he was vacationing out of state. Mr. D. A. Benda Toledo

Questions Toledo stoplight decision

Letter to the Editor Why redo the stoplight base? Toledo has a Historical stoplight that was electronically updated about 2 years ago. This also called for a new base, as the old one was in need of repair. Someone decided to donate the time and material to build this new base. With the cost of ...

Takes issue, encourages D.A.

Editor, D.A. Please keep up your Rants. As long as you write your nonsense I’ll keep my subscription. We here up North get a good laugh and can’t wait for your next idiotic letter. Have you ever looked into the Anti-Gun, Pro Abortion, Nutso Czars and Czarinas this present administration ...

“Is President Obama now just the President of Chicago?”

Letter to the Editor: I generally watch the FOX News Channel, but Shepard Smith is not my kind of guy, so I turn the station to CNBC when Smith is on, to watch Larry Kudlow on the Kudlow Report. Here's a good reason why. Tonight, Kudlow asked the question after the President failed to get the ...

Doctor appreciates Toledo and Tama

Dear Residents of Toledo and Tama, Life is short so we all need to live in a place we want to call home – a place where your friends and acquaintances greet you in the grocery store and talk around the melon display. I’ve been humbled by the wonderful reception offered to me by each of ...

“Bring back the yard waste dumpster!”

Editor’s Note: The City Council apparently shared Noel Duffy’s view. See story in LOCAL NEWS - 'Tama yard waste receptacle ordered back' To the Editor: "Bring back the yard waste dumpster!" Fall is here...the leaves are already falling, the annuals and perennials will soon be dead. Do I ...

Takes aim at Branstad for Governor

Dear Editor: Radio ad said governor Brandstad lowered taxes. Fact, sales tax went up twice when Brandstad was governor. I remember listening to WHO radio and governor Brandstad said he wanted to raise cigarette tax a dime a pack. It was Brandstad who gave us gambling, lottery, a regressive ...

Charges newspapers have “unrelenting blatant right-wing agenda”

Letter to the Editor, A friend just brought the Sept. 15 edition of the Toledo Chronicle over and pointed out Steve and Kris Burr’s letter to the editor saying they are withdrawing their subscription to the newspaper to register their objections regarding the recent repulsive cartoon about ...