Nonprofits have unfair advantage
Not just taxpayers are hurt by the tax exemption for “nonprofits.” Look at the almost unfair advantages those nonprofits get compared to the small business person. How many more patients [...]
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Posted October 14, 2015in Your View
Posted October 07, 2015in Your View
Clapping with one hand
This year’s World Food Prize winner, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed’s organization, BRAC (Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee), is the world’s largest NGO (non-governmental organization), according to The Des Moines Register, (July [...]
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Posted September 30, 2015in Your View
Pope Francis tells Republicans to cooperate for the common good
Republicans now find the shoe on the other foot with this pope. In the past, the GOP have used the church and religion to bash Democrats over narrow issues like [...]
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Posted September 23, 2015in Your View
Freebies all around
Cityview’s question of the week asks, “Should two years of community college tuition be free?” Why stop there? How about free food and housing for two years post high school, or just [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in Your View
All lives matter
Let it be understood that, like most people, to witness or hear of the death of someone is anguishing to me, even if the individual is less than lovely. Sometimes, [...]
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Posted September 09, 2015in Your View
Stumped
From last week’s “Once upon a time”: “50 years ago (September 1965): Contract procedures were revised because of Dutch Elm disease requiring so many more trees to be condemned as a [...]
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Posted September 02, 2015in Your View
Burns needs to check his facts
Douglas Burns shows poor journalistic fact checking in his editorial, “Fiorina shows fraud of alleged prolife movement.” Mr. Burns brings up the old canard that if Roe vs. Wade were [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Your View
Full disclosure needed
If only the commercials for politicians had to follow the same side effect disclosure rules of pharmaceutical commercials. Instead of “Viagra: It will help men get and keep an erection…” [...]
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Posted August 19, 2015in Your View
The process of poo
Last week’s Locker Room segment (Pitching petrified poo, Aug. 13) quotes Regina Pirtle, Iowa State Fair superintendent of activities at Pioneer Hall, as saying, “don’t worry, these chips have been [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Your View
Trump is a rabbit in a track meet
Des Moines Register writer Deb McMahon has harshly (again, as per usual) hammered a conservative in a newspaper. This time it’s The Donald, referring to him, among other things, as [...]
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