The Gazette Editorial on Iowa Juvenile Home Closure
The Gazette discusses the Iowa Juvenile Home in Toledo, praising past help but noting serious flaws found by state probes. It supports closing the facility in January while ensuring compensatory education for 11 of 18 youths, and calls for clearer public input and staffing reforms before reopening.
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Iowa Department of Education
Disability Rights Iowa
Iowa Department of Human Services
DHS
Toledo
Charles Palmer
Iowa
Debates on sand mining and Iowa justice reform in reader letters
A set of letters discusses the threat of fine sand mining from Wisconsin and northeast Iowa hills to fulfill fracking sand needs, warning of landscape destruction, air and water risks, and lower property values. It urges contacting leaders to oppose planned destruction and preserve the environment. The correspondence also covers support for the Rock Island Clean Line to create jobs, and a Coralville writer endorses IJH reforms, lauding progress but lamenting budget cuts and staff strain amid troubled youth care.
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Iowa City
Allamakee County
Wisconsin
Iowa
Clayton County
Rock Island
anti-Clean Line
Carol Thompson
Coralville
Passing Buck Abortion? Obamacare Woes Highlight Blame Game
Presidential spokesman Jay Carney finally admitted the administration will try to pin the Obamacare rollout on Republican sabotage. The piece blames Republicans and the previous administration, arguing Obama promotes blame shifting to justify policy failures.
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Jay Carney
Barack Obama
Living to Oneself in Hazlitt Echoes Twitter Age
Hazlitt’s Winterslow Hut essay On Living to One’s-Self is reimagined from 1821 as a meditation on modern social media culture. The piece traces the urge for public approval, the fear of misinterpretation, and the tension between private thought and online performance. Hazlitt argues true freedom comes from inner independence, away from the gaze of others.
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William Hazlitt
Hazlitt
Winterslow
Klout
Twitter
I Want Christmas Job Hope For My Husband
Kristine Shultis writes from Shellsburg Iowa about her husband Bob losing a good job at Clipper Windpower in 2011. She details unemployment hardship for baby boomers, reliance on dwindling benefits, and a plea for employers to hire experienced workers to restore family stability and charitable giving.
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Acesiias
Clipper Windpower
Wall Street Journal
Kristine Shultis
Bob
Shellsburg
Gardenkris
Fmtcs
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