Pubic water supply should be fluoride-free
The League of United Latin Americans of Iowa is calling on Des Moines Water Works to eliminate fluoride from the public drinking water supply (“Troubled Water?” Dec. 5). The public [...]
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Posted December 18, 2013in Your View
Posted December 11, 2013in Your View
Ode to Bishop Elizabeth Eaton, too
Thank you for your article, “Women of the Cloth” (Nov. 28). I would like to add another event that happened in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America this year. Elizabeth [...]
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Posted December 04, 2013in Your View
Sabbaticals are almost laughable
After reading “Sabbaticals:…” (Civic Skinny Nov. 28) and the projects approved by the Board of Regents, I have the same question I have often wondered about the meetings that “Family Guy” [...]
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Posted November 27, 2013in Your View
Nevermind the Nollens
With essentially no public input, resistance or outcry of the arbitrary renaming of Nollen Plaza to Cowles Commons, can the selling of naming rights for our city high schools and [...]
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Posted November 20, 2013in Your View
If Sarah Palin thinks the Pope is too liberal, wait till she meets Jesus
Now that Gov. Sarah Palin has been here (she was a featured speaker at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 13th Annual Family Banquet) and made her now famous remark [...]
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Posted November 13, 2013in Your View
Lois Bright provided ‘a profound legacy’
I think you have broken my heart with your writing about Lois Bright (Civic Skinny, Nov. 7). I wish I would have known her. But I feel maybe I do. [...]
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Posted November 06, 2013in Your View
Money in politics is scary
After reading the Cityview fact-checker article (Civic Skinny, Oct. 31), let me see if I understand this correctly. If I gave large sums of cash (more than $2.99) to a [...]
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Posted October 30, 2013in Your View
Can’t see the target
Years ago I rode on the bus with a loquacious blind man. One day he told us that he was going to buy a power saw and explained why it [...]
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Posted October 23, 2013in Your View
No one deserves to be bullied
Your recent headline questioned whether the Gortz Haus owners “like Gays” (Civic Skinny, Oct. 17), but this question was overshadowed by the article’s inclusion of a sampling of the vitriolic [...]
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Posted October 16, 2013in Your View
Comments on comment
I read Michael Gartner’s “Comment” in (Civic Skinny, Oct. 10): “But, the poll makes clear, they do not have highly partisan feelings about The Affordable Care Act.” This is wrong [...]
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