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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1997
Page
6
The author reflects on whether citizens can engage in informed respectful dialogue about health care pollution and other national concerns amid a media dominated era. He cites a Kettering Foundation conference as a learning moment and warns against rushing to judge without listening.
The Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forum promote public deliberation to solve critical issues with broad participation. NIF runs over 20 Public Policy Institutes annually across the country to train diverse graduates in deliberation. Call 1 800 433 7834 for more information.
The Kettering Foundation favors democratic deliberation as the foundation of government. Informed discussion, drawn from historic documents like the Declaration and Constitution, helps find common ground. Examples include Polk County using deliberation to allocate Prairie Meadows funds and potential uses for Linn County landfill and Iowa City downtown development.
Timothy Walch of the Hoover Library promotes serious public talk to solve future issues with Kettering Foundation backing. He highlights his forthcoming book At the President's Side The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century to be published by University of Missouri Press in October.
In Cedar Rapids a 1995 city survey counted 1 835 deer inside city limits and a 1997 expanded survey found 1 750 across Cedar Rapids Marion Hiawatha and Linn County with 100 deer in Squaw Creek County Park, yet 103 fewer than two years earlier. The author argues bow hunting is ineffective and unsafe, urging humane alternatives and referencing Living with Deer.
A reader endorses Mike Deupree's July 31 column arguing City Council salaries attract savvy but unequal power. The writer contrasts efficient elites with fairer, self-reliant living, noting life is unfair and wealth shapes society, yet favors principled poverty over plutocracy and cites biblical phrases to frame the stance.
A call to Congress warns HR 400 and S 507 would erode constitutional patent protections. The piece frames the Clinton administration and Asian trade deals as threats to invention rights, arguing such bills would harm jobs, business formation, and economic growth led by American inventors and industries. Rep. Jim Nussle is noted for voting no to the Raptor amendment to HR 400.
Frederick Miller of Cedar Rapids endorses Rosanne Freeburg for the upcoming school board election and outlines a plan for an Educational Foundation in Iowa. The grant would reward K through eighth grade faculties for creative activities promoting responsibility, respect, teamwork, self-confidence, and student achievement, documented on VCR tape with supporting materials.
A reader condemns a July 26 article on Shamaness and Spirit Wolf as misinformation, claiming it promotes non Indigenous appropriation of Cherokee and other tribes ceremonies. The letter argues Sacred Paths Medicine Lodge lacks federal recognition and questions Methodist-backed legitimacy and representation.
The Gazette invites letters and guest columns, with most letters addressing public business and subject to editing. Include writer’s full name signature full street address and daytime phone number. No anonymity allowed. 300 word limit per letter, one letter per writer every 30 days. Address Cedar Rapids Gazette Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406 FAX 319 398 5846 email gazette fylowa infi net.
Readers debate words like ambient and whence in a humorous column. They quip about redundancy and comma splices, contrasting weather jargon with space travel and Mars trips, while noting Noah Webster and Mars hint at linguistic quibbles.
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