Posted August 11, 2016in Your View
Posted August 10, 2016in Your View
How will I function?
Woe is me (picture my hand palm side up on my forehead!) How will I function those four weeks in between issues of Cityview? How can I carry on without my weekly Duffy cartoon? How will I contend without the weekly current Skinny? Where will I go without the daily calendar telling me
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Posted July 20, 2016in Your View
Why all the fuss?
I find this very interesting. After Patti Judge won the primary election she said, “Chuck, do your job! Sen. Grassley, hold a hearing for President Obama’s Supreme Court judge nominee. Do you just want Donald Trump to nominate our next Supreme Court justice?” It sounds like, to me, that
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Posted July 13, 2016in Your View
GOP attacks FBI Director Comey’s rule of law decision
The Republicans’ malicious attacks on FBI Director James Comey because he cleared Hillary Clinton of any criminal charges contribute to the destabilization of our most basic democratic foundations. Last week, House Republicans held an emergency oversight committee hearing questioning Comey and suggesting his decision was based on political motivations.
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Posted July 06, 2016in Your View
Disputing the facts
I keep seeing the same thing repeated over and over. This time it was in the current Civic Skinny article (June 30). “But the party whose governor (Branstad) has been in office longer than any governor in American history…” Gov. Branstad is not the longest serving governor in America.
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Posted June 29, 2016in Your View
Grassley’s power grab sets dangerous precedent
Sen. Charles Grassley’s blockade of the Supreme Court confirmation process sets in motion a dangerous precedent for future presidents. Grassley and his Republican allies claim they have the right to freeze the Supreme Court confirmation process and refuse to hold hearings based on regaining the Senate majority in the
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Posted June 22, 2016in Your View
Making us all feel great again
Given the recent terrorist attacks — the nine church members in South Carolina last year and now a member of the British Parliament — shouldn’t we expect Donald Trump to call for a ban on the immigration of white supremacy advocates? And the deportation — to internment camps in
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Posted June 15, 2016in Your View
Run, Bernie, run
Bernie Sanders has never been elected to office as a Democrat. Bernie Sanders has always won as a Socialist. Now is the time for all good Progressives to write Bernie and encourage him to run for president as a Socialist. Keep up the good fight. Run, Bernie, run! Mark
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Posted June 08, 2016in Your View
Trim the excess branches
Duffy’s editorial cartoon panel, “Chickens Coming Home to Roost on the Weakest Branch of Government” (June 2) implies that state tax cuts and a drop in state revenues are putting a strain on the State Judiciary; it is represented by branches growing downward. Any first-year forestry student knows that branches
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Posted June 01, 2016in Your View
Sanders is still a player
As I listen to the national media’s shock at Donald Trump’s current path of attacks, they are totally confounded. I think they forget one thing that Trump hasn’t — Hillary still has to win California and New Jersey against Bernie Sanders. They want to talk about the general election at
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