First Day in Kindergarten at Cedar Rapids School
Gazette photographer follows 22 kindergartners at Cleveland Elementary Cedar Rapids as they experience their first day. They learn to greet the day, state the date, and imagine a year of naps replaced by rest gym art and music classes.
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Gazette
Liz Martin
Cleveland Elementary School
Cedar Rapids
Melissa Haars
Cleveland
Olivia Prochnow
Ashley Lopez
Mayah Petersen
Cleveland Elementary
Slight overweight linked to higher risk of premature death
A US government study of over 500000 adults shows that being slightly overweight in midlife increases risk of dying in the next decade by 20 to 40 percent. A separate Korean study in NEJM reports similar results, informing the overweight health risk debate.
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Washington
U.S
New England Journal of Medicine
Michael Leitzmann
National Cancer Institute
Iowa City schools refuse tax revenue sharing
The Iowa City school district votes 7-0 to keep its 1 percent local option sales tax share, rejecting requests from Johnson County and the cities of Coralville Hills and Iowa City to pool funds for a joint emergency communications center. The district aims to push the tax before voters in February.
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Gregg Hennigan Ae Gueotlé
Iowa City
Johnson County
Coralville
Hills
Jan Leff
Iowa City Eyes 1 Percent Local-Option Sales Tax
The Iowa City school district projects a 1 percent local-option sales tax could raise 87.1 million over 10 years for district needs. It would provide about 11.1 million annually in years 1–5 for schools and roughly 4 million per year for Johnson County’s other districts, with shared funds in year six onward. Potential projects total 128 million, including two new elementary schools, air conditioning, tech upgrades, and maintenance. Mayor Ross Wilburn commented at a school board meeting on TAX.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Public Safety Millions at stake in security funds
Iowa counties and cities rush to meet a Sept 30 deadline to implement federal emergency guidelines or risk losing homeland security funding. From 1999 to 2004 Linn County received over 1.45 million and Johnson County just over 1 million. statewide totals approach 101 million in seven years.
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Christoph Trappe
Iowa
Linn County
Johnson County
David Miller
Iowa cities show limited training compliance
As of Tuesday afternoon about 50 Iowa cities have met the training requirements, with the Eastern Iowa list including Cedar Falls Montezuma Brooklyn and Searsboro. Only six of Iowa’s 99 counties are compliant and none are in the Eastern region.
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Iowa
Cedar Falls
Montezuma
Brooklyn
Searsboro
Iowa agencies lag in NIMS compliance for emergency prep
The Gazette notes many Iowa cities and counties have not yet met the National Incident Management System requirements. Compliance would affect emergency response readiness and could limit training for first responders.
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