By Lynn Gallagher, Solon When the Iowa Raptor Project exposes their raptors to the chaos of football games and other University of Iowa athletic events, they are prioritizing marketing and fundraising over the wellbeing of their raptors. For them to say that this is about education is absurd. Real education would take place in a […]
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Letter to the editor: LWV’s forums are nonpartisan, but one party’s candidates refuse to participate
By Paula Vaughan and Miriam Timmer-Hackert, co-presidents, League of Women Voters of Johnson County For many years, the League of Women Voters of Johnson County, as well as Leagues across the nation, have held nonpartisan forums for the public and posted candidate questions and responses to our website VOTE411.org. The purpose of the forums and […]
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Op-ed: As Banned Books Week turns 40, it’s time to unequivocally condemn censorship
By Mickey Huff, Project Censored In her best-selling novel Speak, young adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the American Library Association (ALA) and Association of American Publishers helped launch Banned Books Week 40 years ago, that dysfunctional family of censorship has unfortunately grown […]
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Letter to the editor: Democracy or autocracy — vote your values
By Carol Mertens, North Liberty It was November of 1956 and Eisenhower was running against Stevenson for his second presidential term. As a young farmer’s daughter, I vividly remember going to the local telephone office in the tiny hamlet of Chillicothe, Iowa so my parents could vote for Dwight D. Eisenhower. My father had served […]
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Letter to the editor: Grassley lacks the judgment we need
By Dave Bradley, West Liberty This election, Chuck Grassley seems much more interested in fooling some of the people all the time, or at least enough Iowans to get him elected. Grassley’s newest lie is that IRS agents armed with AR-15s will be coming after taxpayers. This whopper came shortly after his lie about voting […]
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Letter to the editor: Grassley and Miller-Meeks vote on the side of corporate profits
By Ellen Ballas, Iowa City Every Iowa Republican voted against the CHIPS Act which rightfully returns American semiconductor jobs to American workers. Senator Grassley told Radio Iowa it’s “corporate welfare.” Grassley habitually rewarded corporations with corporate welfare (tax breaks) for sending American jobs overseas. For example, Grassley voted NO in 2012 to the Bring Jobs […]
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Letter to the editor: Vote NO on Ballot Measure No. 1 to fight rising gun violence
By members of Johnson County’s Moms Demand Action It would be hard to find any reasonably informed Iowans who are unconcerned about the rising level of gun violence in our state. Most would agree that the last thing we need to be doing is tying our lawmakers’ hands if they attempt to enact commonsense gun […]
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Letter to the City of Iowa City: Data supports saving the Robert A. Lee pool
To the members of the Iowa City Parks & Recreation Commission and City Council, We are writing to express our support for keeping the downtown Robert A. Lee (RAL) pool open and for making necessary repairs. Having attended several meetings of the City Council and the Parks & Recreation Department, and after reviewing relevant information […]
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Letter to the editor: Franken will represent all Iowans in the U.S. Senate
By Paul Deaton, Solon I’ve been with retired Admiral Michael Franken enough to know he would make an excellent U.S. Senator. My comparison is with Tom Harkin, with whom I also spent time. Harkin is arguably Iowa’s best senator to date. If elected, Franken could also be one of the great U.S. Senators from Iowa. […]
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Letter to the editor: Attorney General Miller is a longstanding force in Iowa politics
By Natalie Sherman, Des Moines One decade in politics can seem like a lifetime, so several decades and ten terms in office is certainly a momentous feat. While some might be ready to back down after so many years in the political arena, Attorney General Tom Miller seems to have no interest in slowing his […]
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Letter to the editor: I dodged a bullet
By Jeanne Liston, North Liberty I dodged a bullet, twice. In the late sixties I was eighteen weeks pregnant when I began leaking amniotic fluid. My doctor hospitalized me immediately and started an IV of Pitocin to induce labor. He knew, as did I, that if I continued the pregnancy without the barrier of amniotic […]
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Letter to the editor: Has she no shame?
By Don Paulson, Letts Has she no shame? Republican U.S. Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks has recently been blaming President Biden for inflation and high fuel prices, among other things. She surely knows that post-pandemic demand and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has not helped matters. And she also probably knows that huge corporations are crying “inflation” to […]
