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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 2000
Page
6
Joe Hladky serves as President and Publisher while Dale Larson is Vice President. Jerry Elsen is Editor of Editorial Pages and Editorial Board Chairman Mark Bowden is Managing Editor.
Editorial argues student pressure on licensing practices like uniforms and gear prompts action by universities and government. It notes $2.5 billion in annual university licensed product sales, UI involvement with the Worker Rights Consortium, and SAS demands while urging broader focus on global labor abuses and transparent supply chains.
A humorous and pointed personal essay questions race categorization on the census form and explores how tax forms and payrolling a household employee blur identity. The narrator imagines various mixed ancestries, jokes about bureaucratic labels, and ends with a playful dream of a Belarusian Aleutian African Indian Reservation manufacturing a government farm.
A community letter urges legislators to fund more probation and parole staff to place officers in neighborhoods. The writer recalls a Department of Correctional Services meeting, emphasizes community collaboration, and notes offenders must repay society through local service and accountability.
Don Maniccia of HACAP endorses a new Electric Choice bill setting a 23.5 million dollar annual fund to aid low income and elderly Iowans. The measure aims to broaden access, boost energy efficiency, and encourage conservation while challenging rising fossil fuel based prices.
A letter urging passage of a property tax growth limitation proposal argues for limits on county and city spending and asserts tax cash balances since 1995 have risen over 50 percent to more than 650 million. The author criticizes unchecked budget machinations and calls for responsible, fact based budgeting.
The Gazette invites fresh letters up to 300 words and requires name street address and daytime phone. Only your name and hometown will be published. Send to The Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 or via FAX 319 398 5846 or email gazedit ryiowa com.
The speaker opposes H.F. 2229 the 24 hour abortion waiting period and required fetal age pictorials. They object to public assistance information for carrying to term and urge Gov. Vilsack to veto the measure as unnecessary and punitive toward women seeking abortion services.
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