Better way to pay county official salaries in Iowa
The Gazette urges the Iowa Senate to pass a bill sending salary decisions for county officials to a board of elected county officials. It argues current Compensation Board reviews lack objectivity and that elected officials would face voters before any raise, deterring large increases. The measure awaits committee action and aims for a future session debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Senate
House
Boards of Supervisors
County Compensation Board
Board of Supervisors
Linn County Compensation Board
Grassley urges students to start in legislature over city council
In Council Bluffs Iowa Senator Grassley told high school students not to seek long city political careers. He said city service breeds immediate enemies over local issues while legislative work builds broader, longer career prospects. The lesson warns youth the truth about political pathways.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
Senator Grassley
Soviet dissidents face worsened repression ahead of US ties
The piece outlines harsher penalties for political prisoners in the Soviet Union and intensified pressure on dissidents and emigres. It cites cases including Vyacheslav Bakhmin Anatoly Koryagin Yuri Orlov Andrei Sakharov and notes deteriorating conditions in camps and psychiatric wards. Hans Bethe warns such abuse undermines arms control efforts and US Soviet relations.
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Soviet Union
West
Vyacheslav Bakhmin
Anatoly Koryagin
Koryagin
Yuri Andropov
United States
Hans Bethe
Sakharov
Orlov
Fathers as parents for imprisoned mothers' children
A reader argues that fathers should be allowed to parent children when mothers are incarcerated, opposing gender based bias in courts. They denounce special programs for imprisoned mothers and criticize poverty, immigration, and political elites while urging shared parenting to improve outcomes for children.
Keep it holstered dismays Gazette readers
A reader critiques a April 4 Gazette editorial arguing citizens should defend themselves when faced with criminal threats. The letter cites a Hopewell Virginia pizza parlor incident where a man named Robinson drew a firearm to stop a robber. The writer condemns the editorial framing as propaganda and warns of probate fees from violent crime.
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Gazette
Fantasyland
Robinson
Hopewell
MDA thanks supporters for Union Stars bowling event
The Eastern Iowa MDA chapter acknowledges Empire Lanes Hawkeye Labor Council CWA Local 7101 IBEW Local 1362 and Plumbers and Steam Fitters Local 125 for the first annual Battle of the Union Stars bowling charity. 1983 Shamrocks Against Dystrophy also credited Inner Space Waterbeds Mount Mercy College volunteers. Funds fund MDA research patient care and services.
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Empire Lanes
Hawkeye Labor Council
Communication Workers of America
IBEW
Plumbers and Steam Fitters
Mount Mercy College
Whom versus who in a clipped note on editors and usage
An editor argues to strike whom in a sentence about Goddard's victory and McCarthy. He notes a sports line where receivers totaled tackles and suggests rewriting to start a new sentence with them. He compares have struck and stricken in usage contexts and observes pendulum shifts with disease.
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Mark Brown
David Frye
Frye
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Chistopol
Andrei Sakharov
Gorky
KGB
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Russia
Comrade Bigmouth
Nancy Cabbell
Tamara Campbell
Poland
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Muscular Dystrophy Association
MDA
Cedar Rapids
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Collins Road
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