Ode to Joe
I enjoyed and appreciated the article, “Morphine Dreams” by Joe Weeg (Joe’s Neighborhood, March 21). Tried to express my appreciation directly by going to his website www.joesneighborhood.com but couldn’t enter [...]
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Posted April 03, 2013in Your View
Posted March 27, 2013in Your View
A hard copy, please?
I’m writing from Newton Correctional Facility, where I’ve been locked up for the past three years. The day Cityview arrives in our library is a highlight of my week, except [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in Your View
Why doesn’t the governor try using Medicaid?
Medicaid is state-funded, and so is the governor’s health insurance. If the state-provided care is so good as to not need federal intervention, why doesn’t the governor use it himself? [...]
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Posted March 13, 2013in Your View
Vaccinations prevent deaths in children
In deciding what to put in their child’s bodies, be it food, beverage or medicine, parents should have the best information available. Unfortunately, in the discussion regarding childhood immunizations (“Shot? [...]
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Posted March 06, 2013in Your View
Affordable Care Act is good for workforce
Cityview recently published one in a series of attacks on the nation’s health care law, the Affordable Care Act, (Guest Commentary, Jan. 10, 2013) by the right-wing publishing house calling [...]
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Posted February 27, 2013in Your View
Unmanned drones are bad for all
“Who died and made you God!” That was a saying back in coal-mining, small-town southern Iowa, where much of my philosophy about “telling it like it is” was born. To [...]
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Posted February 20, 2013in Your View
A keen insight on the gun control debate
I’m always impressed by the class-act writing this newspaper delivers, but one commentary recently really struck a chord with me (“The Honest Problem of Gun Control,” Guest Commentary, Feb. 7). [...]
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Posted February 13, 2013in Your View
Cityview needs to understand the power of the press
Cityview’s recent cover story, “Shot or not” (Feb. 7) didn’t stray too far from its opening subject line. That of a fairy tale, Mary Poppins. While the author of the [...]
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Posted February 06, 2013in Your View
Give us ‘Zippy the sausage boy’
Beyoncegate is officially behind us. America’s zaftig beauty reinstated her singing bona fides by belting out the “Star Spangled Banner” at a pre-Super Bowl news conference. The media spritzed mucho [...]
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Posted January 30, 2013in Your View
Stop enacting vote- suppressing measures
New voter ID laws and voter purge rules proposed by Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz and Republican legislative leaders impose an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote. These [...]
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