By Gwendolyn Sterling, Cedar Rapids Re: Issue 278, “The Sex Issue” Actually, this letter isn’t regarding that issue so much as it’s pivoting to a topic of far less acceptance and agility. Backtrack with me through time for just a minute: It was a blustery Sunday last spring. I was jostling my book bag up […]
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Letter to the editor: Gov. Reynolds, what’s your climate plan?
We are writing as concerned high school students in Iowa. We are writing to ask you three questions: What is your climate emergency plan? Governors in 24 other states, including neighboring Wisconsin and Illinois, have committed to the U.S. Climate Alliance, and to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28 percent by 2025. Do you plan […]
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Letter to the editor: An open letter to the Iowa City Council regarding ‘deer management’
Dear City Council members, I am a resident of the Northside neighborhood in Iowa City, as well as a founding member of the Iowa City Deer Friends. I just returned from a walk in Oakland Cemetery, where I discovered a White Buffalo bait site, literally yards from the front doors of families in my neighborhood, where shots can easily be heard and the aftermath
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Letter to the editor: Fight for the climate like a preschooler
“Do small things for the Earth and make big things happen.” —Teo, age 5. In 2018, I was led by a group of preschoolers to take on single-use plastic waste in our community. They wanted to protect the Earth and her animals. At the beginning of their campaign, Lucas taped a sign on his back. “Everyone who follows me will see my
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The most impactful letters to the editor sent to Little Village in 2019
From building proposals to benches to bike lanes, Little Village readers were not afraid to share their perspectives on a range of issues in 2019. Here are 13 letters that made a splash.
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Letter to the editor: Sen. Ernst’s Violence Against Women Act reauthorization proposal doesn’t go far enough
By Liz O’Hara — Nearly 1 million American women alive today have been shot, or shot at, by an intimate partner. In an average month, 52 of them are shot and killed. Between 2013 and 2017, 37 Iowa women were killed by intimate partners; two thirds of these women were killed by dating partners as opposed to spouses. The House of
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Letter to the editor: The point of no return
As global leaders meet at the COP25 UN climate summit in Madrid this week, we plan to continue our year-long strike and walkouts in Iowa City on Friday, 3:30 p.m. at Old Brick. Since the Iowa City school district and Iowa City Council have passed updated climate plans in line with the IPCC, and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg
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Letter to the editor: All Democrat idols have feet of clay
Pete Buttigieg: His move to the center reminds me of Bill Clinton’s. Kim Phillips-Fein (‘Invisible Hands’) declares “as president, Bill Clinton accomplished much of what Reagan could not: the dismantling of welfare, the deregulation of Wall Street, the expansion of free trade. Labor experienced no grand revival under the Democratic president;
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Letter to the editor: Iowa’s “missing” cyclists
RAGBRAI is falling apart, but Iowans have always hated cyclists. If you’ve ever dared to wade into the comments section under local news stories about bike lanes in downtown Cedar Rapids, you’re familiar with this hatred. “I’ve been stuck going 15 under the speed limit just because there was a group of bike riders in the street,” one Facebook commenter
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Letter to the editor: CAFOs are factories, not farms
By Lynn Gallagher, Solon The Johnson County supervisors are trying to protect the residents of Johnson County from the industry of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Because they don’t have local control, this is difficult. I fully support their efforts in the UDO (Unified Development Ordinance) to limit CAFOs and to make sure that agricultural […]
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Letter to the editor: Aaron Calvin, the Des Moines Register and the vapidity of viral
The Columbia Journalism Review published a piece by former Des Moines Register reporter Aaron Calvin. Yes, that Aaron Calvin — the reporter who wrote the now-infamous profile of Iowa State/Venmo/Busch Light/Iowa Children’s Hospital celebrity Carson King; a profile that called attention to racist posts tweeted by King when he was in high school.
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Letter to the editor: Thank you.
It’s almost Thanksgiving and I want to shout out to all those I need to be thankful for in the past year. Thank you, politicians such as city officials Mayor Jim Throgmorton and the Iowa City City Council; county officials like the Johnson County Board of Supervisors for supporting a moratorium on CAFOs; state legislators like Sen. Joe Bolkcom and Sen. Rob Hogg and
