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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1995
Page
6
Jerry Elsen serves as Editor of Editorial Pages while Mark Bowden holds the role of Editorial Board Chairman and Managing Editor.
Two national surveys reveal higher drug use among eighth to senior high school students since 1991 and indicate adults see drugs as a crisis. Education and prevention top anti drug strategies, while only 23 percent support punishment as the main approach.
The Wall Street Journal reports IRS historian Shelley Davis has resigned amid a legacy of poor record keeping. She found scattered files dating before 1930, access blocks, and a potential integrity scandal. Congress debates privacy laws and archival obligations while the agency contemplates abolishing the position.
A humorous guide from The Philadelphia Inquirer editor Chris Satullo offering practical tips to survive holiday stress. The piece covers gift strategies, hosting quirks, shopping methods, and mindful reflection on the season's meaning.
Luella Hazeltine raises a geology themed question on semivowels and glides. The note explains W as sometimes a semivowel or glide with examples and contrasts vowels and consonants while noting Y and R in similar roles.
Fay D. Bickel argues the kinetic energy of colliding vehicles explains fatalities in head on crashes. He uses examples from an editorial and a personal 55 mph vs 45 mph collision to urge Iowa legislators to consider physics before setting speed limits.
The Gazette invites letters up to 300 words. Include your name street address and daytime phone number but only your name and Box 511 Cedar Rapids Iowa 52406. Provide FAX 319 398 5846 email gazette tyiowa infi net or Gazette Net on FYlowa 368 8800.
Gordon Martin Sr. of Mount Vernon asks readers to recall the eight who were lost, thanking The Gazette for the Why story and noting the enduring absence felt by families. He invokes the Coonrod crane as a familiar Midwest symbol and wishes the peace of the Lord this Christmas.
Cedar Rapids reader Ken Thimmesch argues that liberal acceptance of homosexuality worsened AIDS spread, calling for condom laws and behavior modification like seat belt rules. He likens public policy to coercive stances and predicts liberal hypocrisy and fatal consequences.
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