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Letters to the Editor

FD Ford – JaMar cruise nights succeeded

To the editor: Another season of the JaMar — Fort Dodge Ford Toyota Cruise Night tradition in Fort Dodge is over. This year we honored our hero of the cruise, Dr. Terry Moehke, and his dedication to Veterans Memorial Park. What a beautiful setting to honor and pay tribute to all those that ...

Almost Home is working for the pets

To the editor: There are exciting things going on here at the Almost Home Human Society of North Central Iowa. We are pleased to introduce our new executive director, Ashley Tuttle. Ashley comes to Almost Home with eight years of experience in the nonprofit world, with a background in human ...

Thankful for North 15th Street input, decision

To the editor: We want to thank all the Fort Dodge residents who helped get signatures and who signed the petition to encourage the Fort Dodge City Council to vote against the proposal to reconfigure North 15th Street from the Village Inn intersection to the Kwik Star intersection (20th Avenue ...

Questions direction of our country

To the editor: I have lived in the Fort Dodge, Iowa, area all my life. Also raised with ethics and values. I see how our free speech is being attacked in this day and age. How people are calling each other names and if you don’t think as they do, we treat them pathetically. My faith is ...

Why do we still have a 55 mph speed limit?

To the editor: I spent last week in central Nebraska and I noticed that the roads are in far better condition than roads here in Iowa and undivided highway speed limits are 65 miles per hour. Nebraskans also pay less in gasoline and diesel taxes than we do in Iowa. Before the oil embargo of ...

Urges pipeline foes to stand strong

To the editor: Since 2022, landowners impacted by hazardous carbon pipeline proposals have urged legislative action, namely in the form of banning eminent domain for carbon pipelines. Back then, only two legislators were willing to stand up to corporate land grabs by introducing legislation ...