More sauce, please
Civic Skinny (May 21) brought me down with the accurate but depressing news of lawsuits involving apes, city trees, lawyers, the IRS and Central College. Then Cityview informs us that The [...]
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Posted May 27, 2015in Your View
Posted May 20, 2015in Your View
Obama’s economic rescue vs. the Bush catastrophe
The latest April job numbers came in last week and added a respectable 223,000 new jobs driving the unemployment rate, which is down to 5.4 percent, the lowest since March [...]
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Posted May 13, 2015in Your View
Hensley’s tax revenue comment a gas
Some might wonder whether Des Moines City Councilwoman Christine Hensley might have taken Cityview’s April Fools edition of the Locker Room article by “Dive Riley” a bit too serious. Readers [...]
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Posted May 06, 2015in Your View
Sick of Jenner
For all the hype about gay marriage and things like Indiana’s religious freedom law, I find it quite odd that America is so infatuated about Bruce Jenner’s sex change. Is [...]
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Posted April 29, 2015in Your View
Iowa’s water problems need solved
Twelve years ago, we set out with our young children to spend a weekend at Clear Lake, anticipating camping, swimming, canoeing and building sand castles. When we arrived, the lake [...]
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Posted April 22, 2015in Your View
Braley’s bailing isn’t the first
Mr. Gartner’s mention of Bruce Braley bailing out of Iowa after an election loss (Comment, April 16) reminded me of other past politicians who professed an “all for Iowa” loyalty and [...]
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Posted April 15, 2015in Your View
Grassley a scary gatekeeper
The U. S. Supreme Court left intact a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled against a lawsuit initiated by the conservative Goldwater Institute [...]
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Posted April 08, 2015in Your View
Let’s have a rational debate, can we?
Rick Smith, in his letter on March 19, is too dismissive of those who do not agree with the majority of climate scientists. I happen to agree that human activities [...]
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Posted March 31, 2015in Your View
More coverage, please
I’m writing to let you know that I am disappointed in the lack of coverage of the cock-fighting they have every month in the basement of the governor’s mansion. When [...]
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Posted March 25, 2015in Your View
Republican hypocrisy
I remember the debate about where President Obama was born. The Tea Party was taking advantage of the ignorance of the general population about citizenship. Their premise that he could [...]
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