Editorial endorses Highway 100 compromise with nature preserve
The Gazette urges approval of a $400 000 transfer to Linn County Conservation Board for about 79 acres near Cedar Rapids to protect a 20 acre nature preserve if Highway 100 extends from Edgewood Road to Highway 30. It argues federal standards will safeguard endangered species and cites avoided costs, potential jobs, and reduced congestion as key benefits.
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Cedar Rapids
Edgewood Road
Highway 30
Frank Olsen
Rock Island
Linn County Conservation Board
Conservation Board
Interstate 380
Linn County
Letters on sex offenders and public safety in Iowa
A Cedar Rapids reader laments released sex offenders and Amber Alerts delays after a child’s murder. He argues for harsher tracking and even a facial tattoo to mark predators, and critiques feminism and gun policy while urging public vigilance.
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Cedar Rapids
John Coney
Roger Paul Bentley
Iowa
Jessica Lunsford
Jessera Gage
Colorado Supreme Court
Martha Stewart
FBI
Martha
Bentley Brothers
Jay Christensen
John Paul II Leaves Behind a Troubled American Church
Posthumous portrait of John Paul II as a traditionalist pope whose long reign polarized American Catholics. The piece notes the churchs division over his stance on birth control, priestly celibacy, women’s ordination and dialog with modernity, while acknowledging his role in ending European communism and his complex Vatican II stance.
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John Paul II
Karol Joseph Wojtyla
Rome
Holy See
United States
Vatican
Krakow
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