Library privacy fight grows over library circulation records
Muscatine County sheriff requests access to Musser Public Library borrowing records for a criminal suspect. Trustees decide to open files, citing public records law, prompting ICLU and Iowa Library Association objections over potential abuse and chilling effect. Legislators urged to exempt library borrower records from public access.
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Muscatine County
Iowa
Iowa Civil Liberties Union
Iowa Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Committee
Public Records
Muscatine
Garage sales rules and neighborhood impact
A Cedar Rapids resident argues for clearer garage sale guidelines including larger yard signs limited duration. The letter supports using newspapers for notices, taxing garage sale businesses, and cites back yard eyesores as harming city aesthetics.
Pro Nuclear Rally Led by SMART in Cedar Rapids
A group at Coe College organized a pro nuclear rally in Cedar Rapids opposing anti nuclear literature. They aimed to present calm fact based arguments after a PIRG lecture by Jim Schwab on April 19 and attracted students sharing their view.
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Cedar Rapids
SMART
Jim Schwab
PIRG
Coe
IE Tower
Nuclear power urged as essential for immediate future debate
A reader letter defends nuclear energy as necessary now while acknowledging uncertainty about long term solar or wind viability. The group recounts a Greene Square march, confrontations with anti nuclear demonstrators, and concerns about funding, taxes, and inflation. The writer urges tax indexing to stabilize finances and avoid further temporary fixes.
Why the DOT Spent on Extravagant Highway Lights
The Iowa Department of Transportation plans to reduce highway lighting while assuring safety at the new lower levels. The note questions why public funds were used for an apparently extravagant system when the reduced lighting should suffice for safety.
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Iowa Department of Transportation
Iowa
DOT
Reagan Faces Age Doubt andLeadership Pressure in 1980 Run
A New Hampshire voter voices concern over Reagan’s age and durability amid a crowded GOP field. The piece notes Reagan would be 70 at inauguration, potential erosion of support, late scheduling, and the lure of lecture fees as he weighs entering the 1980 presidential race.
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Reagan
Questionable Rhodesian vote sparks doubt on democracy
Unofficial U S observers call the election free and fair while critics cite white dominance in Parliament and judiciary. The black majority faced coercion in rural areas and tribal pressure influenced turnout, with 64 percent of eligible blacks voting amid fears of intimidation.
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Rhodesia
United States
Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
Abel Muzorewa
U.S
The Passionless Presidency and Carter’s Silent Course
James Fallows, Carter's former chief speechwriter, argues in The Atlantic that Carter lacked a unifying philosophy and clear priorities. He notes pay increases for White House staff, domestic inflation focus overshadowed by foreign drama, and Carter's ambivalence about decisive policy choices revealing a president who wanted to be president but not a strong reformer.
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Iowa
Treasury
James West
House
Ways and Means Committee
Welliver
Harding
Coolidge
Oval Office
James Fallows
Atlantic
Jimmy Carter
Carter
Fallows
White House
Camp David
Magnolia
Judson Welliver
Calvin Coolidge
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Duane Arnold
Neil Hecht Coe College
School Foundation
Colebrook
N.H
Ronald Wilson Reagan
California
Rep
Philip Crane
Illinois
John Connally
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Jimmy
By William Safire
Washington
FDR
Samuel Rosenman
Robert E. Sherwood
Raymond Moley
Truman
Eisenhower
Emmett John Hughes
JFK
Ted Sorensen
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Jack Valenti
Thetic
LBJ
Raymond Price
Nixon
New York
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