Cedar Rapids Says Goodbye To Three City Leaders In 2010
The Gazette salutes Mayor Kay Halloran and council members Brian Fagan and Jerry McGrane as they depart Cedar Rapids city government. Halloran guided the early council manager transition during recovery from the 2008 flood, while Fagan championed long term planning and sustainability, and McGrane contributed neighborhood focus and flood recovery perspectives.
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Edar Rapids
Kay Halloran
Brian Fagan
Jerry McGrane
Cedar Rapids
Halloran
Fagan
McGrane
Media critics question Woods and Obama image collapse
A conservative writer argues Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal manufactured public personas. The piece suggests media spin and partisan reactions explain their perceived fall from grace and political viability.
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Tiger Woods
Barack Obama
Lisa Schiffren
American Thinker.com
West Wing
New York Times
Frank Rich
Obama
Tiger
Woods
Health care reform bill praised as start toward safeguards
Jerry Woodens of Cedar Rapids thanks President Obama for passing health care reform that aims to improve access, curb waste, hold private insurers accountable, protect benefits during crises, and extend coverage for those with pre existing conditions.
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Barack Obama
Jerry Woodens
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Education Bureaucracy Strains Budget Says U S News
Terry S. Cory argues Iowa schools fail to match funding with needs while AEAs take half the budget overhead. He notes Iowa ranks 40th for college prep, calls for transparency and more localized control, and questions charter and parochial roles.
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U.S. News & World Report
Iowa
Fine Gazette
U.S
Terry S. Cory
Cedar Rapids
Gore exaggerates Earth's internal temperature claim
The report cites Al Gore claiming on The Tonight Show that Earth's deep temperature is over 1 million degrees, noting the claim as an exaggeration by about 995000 degrees. Chuck Jacobsen West Union
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al Gore
Chuck Jacobsen
West Union
Reopen talk on protecting mountain lions in Iowa County
A call to revisit Iowa and state policy on mountain lions and black bears seeks designation as protected wildlife. The piece argues mountain lions are shy predators not protected by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and urges contacting legislators to change the Iowa Code. It cites a recent mountain lion killing as prompt for action.
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Iowa County
Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Iowa
Mountain Lions
Mountainlion.org
Sally Williams
Fairfax
Settlements not to blame for conflict
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed a 22 year old Israeli woman in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank during the Dec 13 period when Sarah McDonald's guest column argued that settlements and attacks drive out Palestinians.
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Gush Etzion
Jordan
Israel
Bat Ayin
West Bank
Pnina Luban Ames
Sarah McDonald
End congressional careers now for a people’s government
Darlene Eiler of Marion calls for term limits six to eight years, arguing lawmakers should not make careers in Congress. She urges voters to oust incumbent politicians to prevent bloodsucking government and keep government of the people by the people.
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Congress
Darlene Eiler
Marion
Decade of Language Shifts and Embattled Phrases
A reader laments modernizing in a Christmas Eve church text and critiques decade long word edits. He highlights terms to discard such as truthiness and surge while preserving striking phrases like czars and ponzi, and calls for restraint on buzzwords and sensationalism.
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Daily Show
America
Howard Dean
Chuck Grassley
T-Do
Bennifer
Brangelina
TomKat
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