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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 2006
Page
1
The Gazette reports 31 people died in Iowa interstate crashes in the last six months of 2005 after raising rural speed limits to 70 mph, a 63 percent rise from 19 fatalities in the prior period. Iowa DOT official Scott Falk cites the speed limit as a likely factor.
Rail leaders staged a daylong Marquette to Bellevue rolling meeting to calm residents and officials along Clayton Dubuque and Jackson counties. IC&E President Kevin Schieffer reassured Guttenberg Mayor Jim Solomon and City Manager Tom Blake about potential increases in train numbers and lengths. Local leaders sought cooperation to ease street blockages and late night noise affecting tourism and commerce.
Indian Creek Nature Center will dedicate a 7 acre prairie named for Paul Christiansen at 1 15 p m Sunday as part of Earth Day weekend events. The Cedar Rapids based center honors the Cornell College botany professor who revived interest in Iowa tall grass prairie and mentored others in conservation.
The piece notes Prairie loss in Iowa from 1840s to 1900, with 90 percent vanished due to farming and over a century more reduced beyond, and mentions Christiansen's remarks on prairie fires by American Indians and germination research at Iowa State University. It highlights historic biodiversity decline and lingering stream pollution in the state.
A Polk County District Court judge ruled that Camden Inc cannot connect 80 TouchPlay machines in storage because it would undermine the Legislature’s ban on the gambling devices. Iowa Lottery officials prohibited new installations and the May 4 ban ends TouchPlay’s rollout after approval in 2002, with over 6,000 machines previously in operation statewide.
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