Althea Cole

Cedar Rapids

Opinion Columnist at The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)

Opinion Columnist, @gazettedotcom Also: Proud voter worker. And: Professional pet-sitter. I walk weird: #Rheum Opinions: Mine #FightForFreelancers GO CYCLONES!

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Opinion | SNAP dollars should not be spent on candy

1 week ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Coles never met a candy they weren’t at least willing to try. My sweet tooth craves it while my 40-year-old female waistline tells me I should despise it. I can’t keep candy in my house. I’ll eat it.
Opinion | Discovering how my ancestor died in the Civil War

2 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. After almost 14 years of wondering, I finally learned how my great-great-great-grandfather died in the Civil War. I have the National Archives Research Center on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. to thank for that.
Opinion | Democrats should keep doing these things

3 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. If I could ask one thing of national Democrats, it would be this: Keep doing what you’re doing. No, really. Here are a few things I would love to see more of from Democrats in the lead-up to the 2026 and 2028 elections: MORE CROCKETT AND HOGG The (recent) greatest hits of outspoken Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett include calling Republican Texas Gov.
Opinion: Public funds for public foods?

4 weeks ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Sixteen months after rejecting $40 per month for three months on an EBT card for kids’ food assistance over concerns that EBT purchases do not guarantee appropriate nutrition, Kim Reynolds has found a way to provide the same dollar amount to low-income Iowa children — in the form of fresh, healthy food.
Opinion: Supreme Court might allow publicly funded religious schools

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a potentially seismic case on education funding. Originally a state matter in Oklahoma about a proposed religious charter school, its outcome could impact state education funding nationwide.
Opinion: Readers react to column about mistakenly deported ‘Maryland man’

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Whenever I see a headline or a news story about something that raises my ire, I tell myself: Don’t get mad, get curious. Americans — especially retirees who dig politics and have time on their hands — are good at letting a story upset us before we have all of the details. But there’s no point in getting mad about something that isn’t accurate.
Opinion | Democrats wage losing battle for man deported in error

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Out of over 100,000 deportations carried out since President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration — a tiny fraction of the millions living illegally in the United States — Democrats have gone all-in on clamoring for the release of a man whose backstory has become increasingly concerning. They might end up regretting it.
‘Rare’ noncitizen voting is still too much

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. In October 2017, a friend of mine who worked in the Secretary of State’s office at the time told me about opposition to a proposed rule about to be implemented under Iowa’s new voter ID bill passed earlier that spring.
Kim Reynolds, a good Iowan and good governor

1 month ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I know a gal. Like me and many others, she’s a lifelong Iowan who never needed to look outside our happy little flyover state to make a life for herself. My fellow Iowan worked as a motor vehicles clerk in her county treasurer’s office many years ago.
Opinion: Reynolds sides with Big Energy over her allies

2 months ago | thegazette.com | Althea Cole

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I recently received a notice of proposed rate increase from MidAmerican Energy. I’m sure quite a few of us in Eastern Iowa did. The energy giant, headquartered in Des Moines, is seeking permission from the Iowa Utilities Commission to add an “automatic adjustment clause” to our bills.

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Althea Cole @AltheaCole

28 May 25

Oh, my GAWD, this is the worst thing the Trump administration has done yet: They're gonna require that manufacturers of powerful medications conduct clinical trials before approving them for general use. HOW DARE THEY! https://t.co/H9GrQOj1fi

Althea Cole @AltheaCole

27 May 25

I'm not sure Letitia James would be available. I hear she has a huge mortgage fraud case coming up.