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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 2014
Page
5
Amy Jellison executive director of Families Helping Families of Iowa urges readers to help foster children during the holidays. She notes many enter care with abuse or neglect and that siblings can be separated. Community donations fund gifts clothing shoes and year round support.
A reader mourns Peter Kassig and calls for military action amid beheadings, while Frank Zieser argues capitalism’s flaws and defends gestation crates, recounting farm crates and practical pork production in Cedar Rapids.
Lenore Skenazy offers satirical holiday verse lampooning modern customs. Parody titles include Conscious Christmas Carol and Frosty the Outsourced Snowman, lampooning celebrity culture and corporate downsizing with witty, edgy humor.
The Daily Iowan’s practice of one on one student journalist interviews with University of Iowa President Sally Mason faced disruption. The university will resume regular sit downs in January as Mason and DI editor Jordyn Reiland aim to restore educational opportunities and journalistic dialogue.
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