Branstad aide calls for ending high paid state post
Jerry Mathiasen the Department of Employment Services deputy director earning 70 000 a year plans to leave and urges abolishing his job to free funds for front line workers. He says two or three underlings could be hired instead, highlighting cost disparities in state government. He will marry next spring and return to Council Bluffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry Branstad
Jerry Mathiasen
Department of Employment Services
Mathiasen
Associated Press
Council Bluffs
Tiny Tim's possible kidney disease sparks medical debate
Virginia pediatrician argues Dickens's Tiny Tim may have a treatable kidney condition based on manuscript clues. The claim, published in a December issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children, aims to teach diagnosis but invites scrutiny of fiction versus fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Caesar
Attila the Hun
Virginia Pediatrics and Neurology
Charles Dickens
Tiny Tim
Associated Press
Donald Lewis
Dickens
American Journal of Diseases of Children
Lewis
Tim
Simon Legree
Magna
ALL Medicine
The real danger behind Dr Death
Editorial by Sara Engram argues that focus on stopping Jack Kevorkian ignores pain management and aging fears that drive assisted death support. It cites Michigan law changes and calls for better hospice care and a national aging commission to address comfort, housing, and quality of life for the elderly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Engram Jack
Kevorkian
Michigan
John Engler
Oregon
Marguerite Tate
Jack Kevorkian
Arthur Caplan
University of Minnesota
Center For Biomedical Ethics
Bill Clinton
America
Dear family letter mocks holiday mail with satire
A columnist mocks the annual holiday family letter, weaving humorous, hyperbolic anecdotes about Nobel prizes, a flight landing on an iceberg, dogs as scholars, and exaggerated achievements. The piece contrasts polished family notes with remembered hardships and hints at political jabs about Bill Clinton.
Protect history from exaggeration in Jones County letters
In a Nov. 29 letter William E. Corbin argues local history is distorted by sensational claims. He cites a Jones County bridge report costing 2800 dollars sent to the National Park Service with incorrect dates and costs and notes supervisors failed to verify courthouse records while approving a 400000 Iowa Trust investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones County
National Park Service
Iowa Trust
Art and public desensitizing figures in our culture
Randy Herold of 136 26th St. NW argues that art and media blur lines between right and wrong, desensitizing youth after a 12-year-old was assaulted and a murder aired on TV. He calls for removing explicit bodies from sculptures and magazines to protect children’s futures.
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Showtime
Madonna
Third Street
First Avenue
Third Avenue
Randy Herold
26Th St. NW
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J.F. Hladky Jr
Board of
Joe Hladky II
Ken Slaughter
Uver
Dale Larson
Jerry Elsen
Mark Bowden
Dr. Death
Sara Engram
The
Baltimore Evening Sun
Dear
Gadzooks
Dr. Whatever
Danek
Stockholm
McGyver
Rover
Washington Monument
Springer
Hiawatha
Ernie Danek
Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
William E. Corbin
Monticello
Gazette
Todd McIntort
Towne Centre
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