Eastern Iowa Airport braces for higher snow costs
Eastern Iowa Airport officials say new FAA guidelines using a runway condition matrix may raise winter weather costs. Airport director Marty Lewis notes more liquid deicer will be used, costing about $4.50 per gallon with a single pass on the main runway and attached taxiway around $5,000.
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Abe vows Japan will never wage war again at Pearl Harbor visit
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joins President Obama at Pearl Harbor to honor World War II dead. Abe becomes first Japanese leader to visit the USS Arizona Memorial and pledges that Japan will never wage war again amid tensions with a rising China and a changing U.S.-Japan relationship.
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Pickering to lead national education initiative part time
Cedar Rapids associate superintendent Trace Pickering will leave his district post in January to become part time executive director of Iowa BIG a program he helped create in 2013 He will also work remotely for Education Reimagined a Washington DC based national initiative to define learner centered education while expanding Iowa BIG for about 100 students last year
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Year in Review: Losses Grow as Music and Icons Fade
A Gazette round up notes 2016 claims from Ziggy and Prince to Merle Haggard, Frey, Emerson, Phife Dawg and Wilder. It highlights Iowa links such as Jerome Silberman who became Gene Wilder, Arnold Palmer and Joe Garagiola, and James Alan McPherson of Iowa Writers Workshop.
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