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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1992
Page
5
Local letter accuses Cedar Rapids School District of using kindergarten open enrollment to steer minority and disadvantaged families into district schools then denying first graders reapplications to maintain a desegregation plan. Organizer Jill Egesdal promotes O P E N and seeks public support.
Jonathan Grobe notes Deep River in Poweshiek County offers a larger business district and easier viability for a new convenience store than Delta, with Delta eight miles to What Cheer and nearby competition sparse. He urges Gazette readers to consider Deep River.
A reader comments on the Cedar Rapids Marion Chamber of Commerce thank you ad in the Sunday Gazette. They applaud chamber work but question 15 tax-supported entities being dues paying members and note 200 plus duplicate names among 3500 members.
A Salvation Army volunteer at Lindale Mall recalls donations from diverse shoppers. One man gave two envelopes of pop money, another saved change in a jar, and an elderly woman donated on her way out. The writer urges generous giving this Christmas.
The writer raises four questions on banking, world aid, legal system fairness, and immigration, criticizing omissions in election discourse. Frederick J. Miller cites marshaled statistics and asks whether a single national bank, global job aid, legal equity, and immigration limits should be pursued.
The Gazette states it does not vouch for readers' letters or judge opinions. It invites corrections or contradictions from other readers and offers equal opportunity for publication.
Gary Maske argues that Christmas has become secularized, urging honesty about its religious roots or even renaming the holiday. He criticizes the view that morals arise independently of God and questions the place of Christ in American culture today.
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