Census figures fuel reform debate on health coverage
The editorial cites Census data showing 25 percent of Americans were uninsured at some point between February 1990 and September 1992, totaling about 60 million over 32 months. It argues structural joblessness and part time work erode employer-based coverage and asserts reform is needed despite political resistance.
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Bill Clinton
White House
U.S. Census Bureau
Census Bureau
Congress
Jordan sparks youth rush as White Sox farm games sell fast
Fans scramble for tickets as Michael Jordan seeks a baseball debut with Birmingham Barons and Cedar Rapids Kernels host South Bend. Birmingham had handed out 25000 free season tickets but will not honor them due to overwhelming demand.
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Michael Jordan
Chicago White Sox
Jordan
White Sox
Cedar Rapids
Kernels
South Bend
Ind
Cedar Rapids Baseball Club, Inc
Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham Barons
Gazette Sports
Fifth season tree proposal shocks Cedar Rapids readers
A letter questions Gary Anderson's plan to spend 293000 of city funds on a 44 foot stainless steel tree for a mythical fifth season. The writer cites higher taxes, seniors facing higher golf pass costs, and urges council to reject the project as wasteful and unnecessary.
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Gary Anderson
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Mr. Anderson
Teamsters Stung by Decline Reflect on Inflation Era Shifts
The piece argues that twenty years after the 1970s peak, Teamsters face a diminished power amid a deregulated trucking market with fewer major strikes. It contrasts high injury inflation fears in the 1970s with 1990s realities of low wage-driven inflation and rising part time work. It notes oil price shocks and OPEC dynamics as pivotal to that decade and questions militant anti inflationist positions today.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamsters
Federal Reserve
Wall Street
OPEC
Soviet Union
Iraq
Letters to the Gazette amuse with varied political and social opinions
Readers debate heredity and sexuality, blame for the S and L crisis, Clinton era discussants, Jim Leach comments, a critique of a Gazette editorial using a light hearted jab at Bobby Knight and a head butt incident. The letter writers defend editors’ wordplay and reflect on public discourse.
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The
Gazette
Butthead
Bobby Knight
Knight
Timely grant aids Iowa City Crisis Center move and serve
The Crisis Center in Iowa City received 182500 in CDBG funds used in 1986 87 to relocate to 321 E First St and renovate. By 1993 emergency assistance and food bank services reached 28513 with 94 percent of households at or below the poverty line and about 50 percent of recipients under 18.
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Crisis
First St
Iowa City
CDBG
Hyphen Rule Debate and Local Usage Examined
A discussion challenges the standard rule for hyphenating compound modifiers. The piece notes essential hyphens like man-eating shark and hyphenated phrases such as civil-rights and animal-rights. It argues hyphens should avoid confusion and be used only when needed.
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Winston Churchill
Cedar Rapids
Reichardt campaign to mobilize Iowa primary voters in Cedar Rapids
Eastern Iowa headquarters for Bill Reichardt for governor will be in Cedar Rapids at the Freeburg home office. A first meeting is set for Tuesday April 12 at 4 p.m. in Beems Auditorium at the Cedar Rapids Public Library to discuss Reichardt and projects to involve youth in the primary, urging pledges to vote and to report names for recognition.
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Iowa
Bill Reichardt
Cedar Rapids
Freeburg
Beems
Cedar Rapids Public Library
Rosanne Freeburg
Newport Dr
Ken Sullivan
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