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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 2011
Page
4
City government and community groups coordinate toy and cash drives to assist homeless children this season. Donations accepted 9 am to 4 pm through Tuesday at City Hall with Hawkeye Area Community Action Program managing distribution.
Cedar Rapids confirmed its third homicide of the year with the shooting death of 30 year old Andre Allen on the southwest side. No arrests have been made, following a prior June death of 22 year old Dexter Meeks.
A reader thanks sponsors for veterans meals and urges action on poverty. The letter criticizes Gov. Terry Branstad for vetoing a modest Earned Income Tax Credit increase, noting it would aid 240,000 low income Iowa families and highlighting rising poverty, food insecurity, and housing costs.
Call for a full independent audit of the Cedar Rapids Post Office consolidation with Milan Illinois to verify claimed savings and protect some 200 jobs. The opinion urges objective review before any move and warns against potential creative accounting and layoffs.
The omnibus spending bill approved by Congress legalizes horse slaughter in the United States. Polls show over 70 percent oppose the practice, and the president had pledged in 2008 to maintain a permanent ban. The note questions whether he can live with the reversal.
A paraplegic former Anamosa High School student, who faced stair challenges, advocates for an elevator in the district. She graduated from Iowa State with degrees in human genetics and psychology and works at the University of Northern Iowa as director of the Office of Student Disabilities. She also placed second runner up in the Ms. America Wheelchair competition in 2009.
The Nation spotlights Joe Therrien, a NYC school drama teacher turned puppeteer, as a symbol of Occupy Wall Street and a broader Democratic appeal to educated professionals. The piece contrasts Therrien’s MFA path and debt with limited job prospects, then questions the Democrats’ strategy to court a center-left coalition.
John Ensslin of the Society of Professional Journalists cautions against arrests of reporters at Occupy demonstrations across Atlanta New York Oakland Richmond Chapel Hill Nashville and Milwaukee. He urges accountability and public forums between police and journalists.
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