By Chad Cooper, Cedar Rapids The Iowa Democratic Party has had a rough year. First, the bungling of last February’s caucuses, and now a dismal showing in races across the state on Nov. 3. The elevation and financial backing of moderate, middle-of-the-road candidates clearly isn’t a winning strategy. It’s not effectively motivating progressives or swinging […]
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Letter: My Iowa City dream apartment has turned into a nightmare
By Aradia Wyndham, Iowa City Getting my apartment at Augusta Place was like winning the lottery, literally. I won my apartment in a lottery of low-income units in this building due to medical disability. While I considered this an amazing opportunity for me to live in a more accessible new home, the most visible of […]
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Letter to the editor: The irony of Iowa’s season opener loss
By Mike Fallon, Iowa City Despite the gargantuan and grossly expensive effort to resuscitate college football, the University of Iowa Hawkeyes lost their season opener. Losing a season opener, in the midst of the swirl of chaos, litigation and stresses of moral incertitude, is a fine example of irony. Recall that one definition of irony […]
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Letter to the editor: Pulkrabek will address the pandemic
By Paul Deaton, Solon As Election Day approaches, coronavirus dominates the news and the lives of many who live in House District 73. I voted early for Lonny Pulkrabek as state representative and recommend you vote for him too. Pulkrabek will engage with other legislators to do something about spread of COVID-19 in Iowa. Given […]
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Letter to the editor: Rep. Kaufmann has not earned my trust or my vote
By Kathleen Darling, West Branch Mr. Kaufmann has not earned my trust or my vote. He does have a gift for saying the right thing according to the audience. After I visited several town hall meetings I found his responses evasive, dismissive and misleading. For example, in Clarence when public workers present raised concerns of […]
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Letter to the editor: Our District 73 representative doesn’t seem to like us very much
By James C. Folk, Iowa City Ten years ago, it was odd that Iowa House District 73 was drawn with straight edges and an attractive wandering line along the Iowa River. Perhaps the artist’s hand shook a bit as he drew the southern boundary. It was suddenly interrupted, adding a tiny, jagged appendage that just […]
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Letter to the editor: Count every vote
By Pat Bowen, Iowa City Voting is a sacred act, a way to shape public policy and transition our communities so they work for all of us. Our state and country are places where every vote should count. No matter what you look like, how much money you have or where you come from, it […]
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Letter to the editor: The search for a new UI president has begun again. Let it be better this time.
By Lois Cox, Clinical Professor of Law Emerita, writing on behalf of the Executive Committee, University of Iowa chapter, AAUP Once again the University of Iowa begins its search for a new leader. But this search will be like no other, not only because it is happening in the midst of a pandemic, but because […]
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Open letter to Susan Mims: The accusations against ICPD are not ‘baseless’
By Nicholas Theisen, Iowa City Dear Councilor Mims, Since it has become your habit of late to respond to public comment at city council meetings, despite stating each time that it is not the historical habit of councilors to do so, I write this letter to you, and by extension to your colleagues, to address […]
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Letter: Saying goodbye to Fired Up Iowa City
By Molly Burt-Westvig, Iowa City “The only constant is change” is a pretty dismal quote we’ve been hearing in our Zoom meetings and seeing in plenty of therapizing Facebook posts — but it’s also something my dad tells me pretty much every phone call lately. The original quote is attributed to Heraclitus, the first to […]
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Letter to the editor: Like Trump, Rep. Bobby Kaufmann projects the image of a bully
By Joel E. Wells, Iowa City Let us be clear, this election is about being in public office either to fleece the government for yourself and others or to use the government for the good of the people you represent. The choice is clear if you watch the debate for House District 73 between Bobby […]
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Letter to the editor: In defense of historical re-enactment assignments
Submitted Aug. 29 By Catherine A. Stewart, Professor of History, Cornell College I was dismayed to read the article in the Gazette, “University of Iowa redesigning assignment that asked students to be ‘a slave or slave master’” (8/28/2020) by Vanessa Miller, regarding a student’s objection launched on social media to an assignment in Dr. Leslie […]
