Local youths shine in theater and community service
Cedar Rapids pals Ashton Kutcher and Elijah Wood tour with national groups in Sound of Music and Music Man productions at the Paramount Theatre last week. Xavier High School Foundation attracts area business support as students excel academically and stay in the region. A Johnson County volunteer task force funds 2500 portable defibrillators for law enforcement and rural sites to boost cardiac arrest survival. Bill Quinby receives the fourth Peter Teahen Award from the Freedom Festival for patriotism and community spirit.
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Ashton Kutcher
Elijah Wood
Josh Siegel
Catherine Blades
Cedar Rapids
Josh
Catherine
Paramount Theatre
Xavier High School Foundation
Johnson County
Bill Quinby
Peter Teahen
Freedom Festival
Iowa Voice on Obsolete Projects and School Junk Food
A reader outlines concerns over the Denver Ocean Journey aquarium costs and bankruptcy warning against a proposed Iowa rain forest project. The letter cites job losses at Kodak and argues for smarter election reforms and school nutrition policies, urging officials to preserve funding for activities without junk food profits.
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Denver
Colo
Landry’s Restaurants
Iowa
Coralville
Chuck Grassley
Robert Ray
Mark Rushton
Cedar Rapids
The
Wall Street Journal
Iowa City
Gazette
Karen Fletcher
Cedar Rapids courthouse delays spark debate on funding timeline
Federal judges and Cedar Rapids leaders push for a new federal courthouse with money in line since a decade ago. Construction may start in 2006 or 2007 with opening around 2010, while hotel tax funds face shifts that cut arts funding amid tightening city budgets. Outdoor ice skating opens briefly before mild falls and sub zero swings end skating early.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Need a President Who Cares for Little People
A reader urges electing a leader who helps the "little guy" amid claims of a thriving economy with 1000 new December jobs and low wages. The letter notes a sighting of a person with belongings in a grocery cart on Fourth Avenue SE and questions homelessness elsewhere.
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Fourth Avenue SE
Critical health care gaps hidden by administration
H. Jack Geiger argues four years of peer reviewed studies show systemic disparities in diagnosis and treatment for African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and Asian subgroups. He condemns HHS for editing the national disparities report to downplay race and ethnicity and calls for honest data analysis and civil rights enforcement in health care.
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H. Jack Geigervor
Department of Health and Human Services
HHS
Institute of Medicine
Congress
Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality
AHRQ
National Institutes of Health
America
NIH
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Kodak
Karen Lottes
Tommy) Thompson
Physicians For Human Rights
Martin Luther King Jr
H. Jack Geiger
City University of New York Medical School
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