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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 2006
Page
11
Mayor Tom Patterson to appoint one City Council member one staffer and five citizens to form a seven person technology advisory panel. The group will analyze current systems set purchasing specs and procedures and suggest acquisitions and vendors. It will operate as a recommending body only.
City Council voted to pay a flat $25 to residents whose mailboxes are hit by a snow plow during removal. Owners with higher value boxes bear the risk if damaged. Residents can appeal via the claims board case by case. Concrete or brick mailboxes are prohibited to protect city property.
Nancy Listman, 54, of Watkins, faces first degree theft charges for stealing more than 313000 dollars from the Science Station between May 2002 and her departure in July 2004. A Sept 13 plea hearing has been scheduled after multiple trial resets.
The University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science receives a three year $918,589 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant to recruit and train 20 students in digital librarianship. Project director Padmini Srinivasan leads work across UI Libraries WiderNet Project International Writing Program and Academic Technologies. Linda Alexander's column resumes Aug. 9.
On the first day of Iowa's tax free weekend shoppers pack Tar get in Coral Ridge Mall. Karla Cheney and Denise Mougin describe the rush as families stock up on school supplies like pens scissors and glue. The event runs through today as shoppers navigate crowded aisles.
Molly Rossiter reports that 20 year old Misener from Hiawatha chose Luke 23 34 in Greek for his arm tattoo to prompt conversations about faith. Local tattoo artist Steve Barjonah notes a rise in religious tattoos among 18 to 25 year olds, countering the idea that young adults hide their faith.
A 14.6 million grant to the University of Iowa will unite an international team led by ophthalmology professor Gregory Hageman to fast track macular degeneration treatments. Partners in St. Louis, California, Chile, Australia, China and Ireland join UI researchers including Brian Martin in a three year plan to move discoveries toward patient options.
The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the HIV transmission law. Adam Musser, 25, of Iowa City, remains sentenced to 50 years for exposing four Johnson County women to HIV. The court denied his challenges, stating the sentence is not cruel or unusual and the law does not force disclosure, only allows private sharing with partners.
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